Whenever the jazz conversation turns to West Coast jazz, the talk usually centers on the laid-back style's major influences, including tenor saxophonist Lester Young, Woody Herman's Four Brothers band ...

LARAMIE - More than eight years after the initial release of "Will Rogers, Performer," the authors, now publishers, have re-released the book in paperback. Laramie County residents Richard J. (Rick) ...

Actor Rogers (1879–1935) helped audiences cope with the dislocations of a modernizing world, according to this perceptive biography from University of Missouri historian Watts (JFK and the Masculine ...

LARAMIE - Eight years after the initial release of "Will Rogers, Performer," the authors-turned-publishers have re-released the book in paperback. Laramie County residents Richard J. "Rick" and Mary ...

“Read his remarks now, and you want to cry, because so little has changed” stated the Des Moines Register, referring to the wisdom, humor, wit, philosophy, power of observation, popularity, and ...

Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing over 3,200 pounds, the statue of Will Rogers and his beloved horse, Soapsuds, is a prominent landmark just west of the University Avenue and Broadway entrance ...

Will Rogers made a career out of making fun of politics and politicians − with a generous spirit. George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images For those trying to come to terms with a particularly ...