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Will Rogers's Radio: Race and Technology in the Cherokee Nation

Will Rogers's Radio: Race and Technology in the Cherokee Nation Will Rogers's Radio Race and Technology in the Cherokee Nation amy m. ware In March 1935, a few months before his death in an airplane crash, Will Rogers (1879­1935) wrote to his first cousin Lizzie Tripplett. At the time Lizzie was a patient at the Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, the first Indian hospital in the country. In fact, the building of the facility itself was due to Rogers's celebrity lobbying efforts; he mentioned the hospital several times in print and on the air and likely spoke privately to influential senators about the idea.1 As was typical of Rogers, he tried to boost Lizzie's spirits through humor. In reference to his most recent film he wrote, "I think we gotta pretty funny one coming out next called `Life Begins at Forty.' Course, life don't really begin 'till you start to swim in the Verdigris," a reference to the river that runs through the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In his subsequent paragraph Rogers took a more serious tone. "I bet you don't have a radio down in them sticks," he wrote. Well, here is a check to get them patients one. Get this and also http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Will Rogers's Radio: Race and Technology in the Cherokee Nation

The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 33 (1) – Jan 17, 2008

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Will Rogers's Radio Race and Technology in the Cherokee Nation amy m. ware In March 1935, a few months before his death in an airplane crash, Will Rogers (1879­1935) wrote to his first cousin Lizzie Tripplett. At the time Lizzie was a patient at the Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, the first Indian hospital in the country. In fact, the building of the facility itself was due to Rogers's celebrity lobbying efforts; he mentioned the hospital several times in print and on the air and likely spoke privately to influential senators about the idea.1 As was typical of Rogers, he tried to boost Lizzie's spirits through humor. In reference to his most recent film he wrote, "I think we gotta pretty funny one coming out next called `Life Begins at Forty.' Course, life don't really begin 'till you start to swim in the Verdigris," a reference to the river that runs through the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In his subsequent paragraph Rogers took a more serious tone. "I bet you don't have a radio down in them sticks," he wrote. Well, here is a check to get them patients one. Get this and also

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The American Indian QuarterlyUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Jan 17, 2008

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