Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Chicago : The John C. Winston Company
Volume:
Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom
Leaf #:
000235
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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CHAPTER XIII Flying with Wiley Post THE PLANS of Will Rogers and Wiley Post were vague when they took-off from Seattle early in August for "the roof of the world" — Point Barrow — the northernmost outpost of civilization on the North American continent. It was to be a vacation trip by easy stages with no particular destination. Rogers was paying the expenses of the jaunt and they had half-formed plans of flying around the world by way of Siberia, China, Ethiopia, Europe, and Greenland. Their plane was a hybrid Lockheed with a new Wasp 550-horse-power engine, the wings of a cracked-up Sirius, and the fuselage of a wrecked Orion. It was equipped with pontoons for landing on water. Some experts said that the added floats made the ship too heavy, but Post was too good a flier to take his best friend in a flying job that was not entirely airworthy. From Seattle the vacationists hopped to Juneau, Alaska, where Rogers met his old friend, Rex Beach; then they went on to Dawson, Aklavik, Fairbanks, Anchorage, and the Government's great experiment in pioneering, the Matanuska Valley. At Matanuska, the colonists swarmed around the plane as Rogers was climbing out. "How do you feel, Mr. Rogers?" someone shouted. (213)