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Will Rogers

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci People

Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:

How My Wife Has Helped Me, March 11, 1925

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.5602.1
Description New York Telegram 11 March 1925 "We Women by Betty Brainerd. 'How My Wife Has Helped Me.'" Charles Russell talks about his wife, "The worst fight we ever had was in 1897 when she asked $75 for a canvas, which I though highway robbery -- and got it. I was ready to sell it for $5, but she insisted that we had to eat. From that time on she has sold all my paintings. It used to worry me, the prices she asked, but she always gets what she goes after. As Will Rogers said -- 'Mrs. Russell took the...
Dates: March 11, 1925

Introduction about Charles M. Russell

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.4114.1-6
Description

Introduction about Charles M. Russell by Will Rogers. Typed on the front of six pages.

Dates: [no date]

Letter from Nancy C. Russell to Will Rogers, May 14, 1920

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.4760
Description

Letter by Nancy C. Russell to Will Rogers; tells Rodgers that she is sending Charles M. Russell's manuscript to him at his studio. Typed.

Dates: May 14, 1920

Letter from the Rancheros Vintadores to Mrs. Will Rogers and Family, August 22, 1935

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.4978
Description

From the Rancheros Vintadores, handwritten, Aug. 22, 1935, letter of solace after Will Rogers' death.

Dates: August 22, 1935

Letter from Will Rogers to Charles M. Russell, 1926

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.4776.1-5
Description

Letter by Will Rogers to Charles M. Russell; tells Charles M. Russell about the conversation that he had with Nancy C. Russell when she and Jack last came down to visit, and talks about being asked to write the introduction for the book. Typed on the front of five pages.

Dates: 1926

Los Angeles Examiner 27 April 1924, April 27, 1924

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.5587.2
Description

Los Angeles Examiner 27 April 1924' is the top heading for the article that Will Rogers wrote praising Charles M. Russell, TU2009.39.5887.1.

Dates: April 27, 1924

Newspaper Clipping of a review of "Trails Plowed Under", February 3, 1928

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.5158
Description

Post Chicago Ill., February 3, 1928, Review of 'Trails Plowed Under.'

Dates: February 3, 1928

On the Side with E. V. Durling, March 25, 1934

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8073
Description

Newspaper articles by E. V. Durling about 'Good Medicine'.

Dates: March 25, 1934

Photograph Postcard, 1797 - 1897

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 232.Unknown]
Identifier: 4327.8698
Description

This is a photo postcard, printed in color with a reproduction of a Charles M. Russell watercolor of a saloon scene with three men lounging at a bar while another fires at the feet of still another. Words at the bottom read, "Dance! You short-horn dance!" At the top it reads, "101 Ranch, Bliss, O.T." and "I find cow-boys a social set, at one of their 'gatherings' I was invited to dance." Reverse side is blank but has Charles M. Russell's signature buffalo skull in the stamp location.

Dates: 1797 - 1897

Piano Jim and the Impotent Pumpkin Vine', 1947

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.284
Description

Small booklet, dark tan cover. "Piano Jim and the Impotent Pumpkin Vine". 1947. Short story originally written by Charles Russell. Post script by Will Rogers.

Dates: 1947