Birthplace of Will Rogers

Rogers County · approximately one mile east of Oologah on OK-88

World-renowned writer, humorist, and actor Will Rogers was born on a ranch east of Oologah in Cooweescoowee, Indian Territory, on November 4, 1879. He and Wiley Post died in an airplane crash at Point Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935. His birthplace was moved out of the path of Oologah Lake to a site two miles north of here and is open to the public.

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