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Will Rogers was 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, he left school in 1898 after being threatened with discipline for pranks and came to Texas. He became a cowboy on the Little Robe Ranch near Higgins and made a lifelong friend of young Frank Ewing, the son of his employer. In 1902 he joined a Wild West show and was famous by 1918. Rogers died in a crash during a globe-circling pioneer flight with aviator Wiley Post in 1935.
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