Humorist William Penn Adair Rogers was born to a family of the Cherokee Naiton. He grew up on a ranch and actually worked as a cowboy before turning to rodeo entertaining and eventually vaudeville.

Whether in live shows, in radio, on film, or in writing, Rogers' unique brand of homespun humor and wisdom found many fans around the country. He made 71 moviesand wrote 4,000 nationally syndicated colummns.

Rogers met an untimely death when he was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935.