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 #:
000251
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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FLYING WITH WILEY POST 229 famous even as far away as Seattle. The plumbing line is drawn at Fairbanks. North of that point, ordinary plumbing is unknown except for the "modernizations" Morgan introduced. No money is in circulation where Sergeant and Mrs. Morgan hold forth. All transactions are by primitive barter. Reindeer meat is the chief food. Geese appear during about thirty days of the year. In order that he may find time to hunt without breaking into the daily radio schedules which must be maintained; Sergeant Morgan has taught his wife to be a relief operator. The Morgans' elder child, a daughter, was sent back to the United States to school when she was fourteen. Their other child is a son, named Barrow. Sergeant Morgan built a snowmobile by putting caterpillar drive and skis on an old flivver and has made trips as long as 200 miles in this vehicle, exploring along the almost unknown coast toward Demarcation Bay. The thirty-four-year-old Sergeant is the United States Government to the few white men and the few hundred Eskimos north of seventy-one. He was born in Payson, Utah, in 1901 and enlisted in the Army in 1920. THE "SPARE-PARTS" PLANE There was considerable comment over the fact that the plane in which Rogers and Post crashed was a "spare-parts" job but when it was finished, Wiley was proud of her and considered an ideal plane for long-range cruising. Crosson, too, had