Guns International #: 103232808

Category - Collectibles - Western - Collectibles - Colt

Category
Collectibles - Western
Collectibles - Colt

OKLAHOMA’S FAMOUS COWBOY WILL ROGERS PERSONAL GAL-LEG SPURS.

Description:
Rogers began his show business career as a trick roper in “Texas Jack’s Wild West Circus” in South Africa: Hollywood discovered Rogers in 1918, as Samuel Goldwyn gave him the title role in Laughing Bill Hyde. Rogers made 48 silent movies, but with the arrival of sound in 1929, he became a top star in that medium. His first sound film, They Had to See Paris (1929), gave him the chance to exercise his verbal wit. Radio was the exciting new medium, and Rogers became a star there as well, broadcasting his newspaper pieces. From 1929 to 1935, he made radio broadcasts for the Gulf oil Company. This weekly Sunday evening show, The Gulf Headliners, ranked among the top radio programs in the country. William Adair Rogers died in a plane crash in 1935. Before his death, the state of Oklahoma commissioned a statue of Rogers, to be displayed as one of the two it has in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol. The gal-leg spurs are in nice condition with his initials W.A.R. ”William Adair Rogers”.


Price: POR