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Will Rogers

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US 60, east side of Higgins, Higgins, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 36° 6' 58.22904999996", -100° 1' 54.8143200012"
 
    Texas State
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     One of America's best loved humorists, whose stage act, gently mocking man's foibles, was highlighted by rope tricks learned here in his youth. Born in Oklahoma. In 1898, threatened with discipline for pranks, he left school and came to Texas. He became a cowboy on the Little Robe Ranch near Higgins and made a lifelong friend of young Frank Ewing, son of his employer. In 1902 he joined a wild west show; was famous by 1918. Rogers died in a crash during a globe-circling pioneer flight with aviator Wiley Post, 1935. (1967)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Will Rogers Historical Marker Location Map, Higgins, Texas