Created | Updated Feb 17, 2002
American stage, film, and radio actor.
Will Rogers was first noticed for his expert roping skills. He made the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once; one would go around the horse's neck, one around the horse's legs, and one around the rider (ouch!). He began demonstrating his roping on Vaudeville stages, where his joke-cracking quickly became more popular than his actual trick roping.
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