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37. Will Rogers

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 12:23 PM

Oct 29

Will Rogers was a member of the Cherokee Nation. He was also a member of the Dawes Rolls, the official list of citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes, which confirmed his citizenship in 1903.

Will Rogers came to Sacramento in 1935 to film John Ford’s “Steamboat Round the Bend," a movie about a high-stakes steamboat race in Louisiana. The Sacramento River stood in for the Mississippi River during filming. The film was released a month after Rogers died in an airplane crash on August 15, 1935.

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