"The Papers of Will Rogers: From Broadway to the National Stage, September 1915–July 1928" was published in December by the University of Oklahoma Press. The fourth volume in “The Papers of Will Rogers” series is filled with more than 600 pages of Rogers’ correspondence, letters, telegrams, transcriptions of sound recordings and other unpublished material from 1915 to 1928. The series’ fifth volume, covering 1929 until his death in 1935, is scheduled to be released during early 2007.
The book’s editors – Steven Gragert, associate director of the Will Rogers Memorial Museum, and Dr. Jane Johansson, assistant professor of history at Rogers State University – believe the previously unpublished Rogers material will provide valuable insight into the breadth of his cultural and political impact.