Rogers, Will

"In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and an authority on Plains Indians, provides an important account of conditions in Indian Territory from 1878 to 1880, a period of rapid transition.". "The Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in present-day western Oklahoma was the center of Dodge's activity. His writings offer a firsthand record of the 1878 retreat of the Northern Cheyenne, the conditions endured by Indians who remained on the reservation, and the jurisdictional conflicts between Army personnel and representatives of the Office of Indian Affairs.". "These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region."--BOOK JACKET.

Contains "eighteen articles that Rogers wrote for a varied assortment of magazines between the years 1917 and 1933 and six hitherto pieces from the collections of the Edmon Low Library at Oklahoma State University."

"In this volume, the sixth in Series IV of The Writings of Will Rogers, are found the Weekly Articles of the famed humorist and cowboy philosopher published during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt from March 1933 to Rogers' death in August 1935. These weekly columns were carried in newspapers across the country." --Publishers description.

Here we have the Rogers wisdom about politics, crime, recession, inflation, budgets, disarmament, labor, women, ecology, sports, lawyers, and the quotes are surprisingly as relevant today as they were when they were written.

"A nostalgic return to Will Roger's America. Plus 100 photographs and exclusive interviews with some of Rogers' famous friends ... Wild-West shows and vaudeville, Hollywood, the silent movies and "talkies" and ... politics"--Jacket.

"Rogers satirizes the nation's most famous experiment and points out the folly of trying tp legislate a country's morals."-- Publishers descrription.