The historic home of late actor Will Rogers was lost in the Los Angeles fires. As the fire in the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood—one of several wildfires engulfing Southern California ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – The historic home of Cherokee humorist, actor and humanitarian Will Rogers burned to the ground as major fires swept through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 8.

Will Rogers was a vaudeville performer and actor who was born in Oklahoma and later moved to California. The Will Rogers State Historic Park is his former estate. Right now officials know the home ...

Among the carnage wrought by the devastating Palisades fire were two pieces of California history dating to a bygone era. Will Rogers’ historic ranch house, owned by the famous social ...

He could touch the emotional center of more lives than any other." Will Rogers, an American actor, humorist, writer, and philosopher, was born in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1879. As a young ...

Rogers moved to California in 1919 and became Hollywood’s most popular and highest-paid actor in the 1930s. Our thoughts are with the Will Rogers State Historic Park staff, who work directly ...

great-granddaughter of Will Rogers. The historic ranch was once a place to escape the spotlight for the iconic actor and cowboy. “It was truly one of the most beautiful places ever, it’s just ...

Rogers was a legendary cowboy, actor, writer and humorist who died in Alaska in 1935 during an airplane crash with noted ...