Here are some items of interest from the Will Rogers Memorial Web site:
"Only a cowboy nation could have produced Will Rogers. And only Will Rogers could have done so much to lift the
people of his place and time."
That's the lead-in to the third and last of a series profile of Will Rogers published in American Cowboy. The July-August
issue of the magazine is now on newsstands worldwide.
A project specially chosen for the first full year of recognition of the National Day of the American Cowboy, set July
22, it was written by Joe Carter, retired Will Rogers Museum executive director and author of two books about Will Rogers.
Will Rogers, undoubtedly would have had a witty quip about being included with literary greats such as Mark Twain, Zane
Grey, John Steinbeck, Jack London and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
But there he is in the spring issue of "Persimmon Hill," a publication of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
Will is included in Trish Foxwell's story about literary landmarks and writers who endowed the world with classics of
the western frontier.
Outstanding books have been named winners of the 2006 Will Rogers Medallion Awards to be presented in September.
The Academy of Western Artists will honor Buck Ramsey's Grass and From My Window and other poems, the authors and publishers.
