Pages are very discolored, but easily read Book jacket is covered in an archive plastic sleeve to prevent further damage Book cover has some staining Bobs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1961 First Edition, 218 pages. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son", Rogers was born to a Cherokee family in Indian Territory. By the mid-1930s Rogers was hugely popular in the United States, its leading political wit and the highest paid of Hollywood film stars.