Will Rogers - The Ropin' Fool

[@kiasax2]

I was lucky enough to learn about my Cherokee cousin Will Rogers as a boy. He's been my hero ever since. The things he could do with a rope were astonishing. I've never seen anyone accomplish what he did. He was a great Cherokee American whose voice we need today.

[@francielewis5179]

My grandfather William "Buster" Trow is the rider in these rope tricks. He met Will on vaudeville in NYC while working in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and they left for Hollywood together in 1917. Buster acted and did stunts in all Will's movies.

[@Voular]

Cool!

[@caretotango]

That's amazing!

[@CameraEyeToEye]

Francie Brown Will Rogers is a distant cousin of mine, but I admired him long before I knew he was a cousin!

[@prfrmrjody]

Fantastic

[@yvonnegoebel9458]

Awesome. Never seen anything like that.

[@MissCaitlinsNana]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. What a cowboy! ❤

[@Anonarchist]

Im suprised how entertaining I found this. Impressive accuracy, those last few shots were completely nuts.

[@Bubba2Guns]

An Indian who roped and rode like a cowboy, spoke like a sage, joked like a philosopher and scared most politicians. Legend!

[@oneblackhorse]

He was actually 3/4 European. He wasn't an Indian. He was 1/4 Indian.

[@t4texastomjohnnycat978]

@@oneblackhorse YOU are no doubt correct.👍

[@jochanaan58]

@@oneblackhorse As far as blood, you are correct. Yet Will always identified with and was accepted by the Cherokee Nation.

[@pendragonU]

@@oneblackhorse the one drop blood made him "not White enough" for WASPs anywhere and less for Brahmins of the East Ivy leagues

[@genghiskhan7041]

@@oneblackhorse If you are over 1/8th,and can prove it, by US law you are "native American".

[@dennispalmer6007]

I remember watching one of Will’s onstage performances were he walked on stage with that days news paper and proceeded to put a comical spin on every article down to the obituary. Genius.

[@GoldeneyePwner]

I said either "Holy shit" or "You've got to be kidding me" more times than the video was viewed. That guy was just as amazing with his roping as he was with his social commentary. RIP.

[@christophercotter166]

Absolutely amazing I could watch that all day. Is there anyone doing that today I reckon?

[@SuperReelmccoy]

People really need to go to the Will Rogers Museum in Claremore, Ok. and see some of the other roping. Like two loops on on left and one on right facing two horses on each side and them running through both loops as I remember. Refresh me.

[@SuperReelmccoy]

Yes they have a viewing room for his roping and a theater for some of the replays of movies he was in. He was unreal with a rope and it looks like magic.

[@howardjesse9312]

Some of the greatest roping you ever see

[@0210ronin]

Yo this is a dope skill. I wish as a city kid, I had more experience with actual skills you use when working farms and ranches.

[@RSW1950]

And I thought Buck was the 'great one' (he still is a 'great one') but Will Rogers is definitely without equal... amazing!

[@busman7228]

Anyone who visits Los Angeles should visit his place in Pacific Palisades. Impressive ranch, house tours on Thursday and Fridays by the state park ranger. His home, stables, and polo field. We were there two days ago.

[@Chris_yes]

This is amazing .

[@tiggerr42431]

Simply amazing.

[@jayoutdoors1534]

This guy is so impressive with a rope. No one will ever be as good as him.

[@nickc.6907]

I am an amateur roper and I would love to be able to do that someday.

[@marycarricaburu3683]

I wonder if the horse ever got bored, You know he knew the tricks as well as Will Rogers and William Trow did.

[@wesinman2312]

Amazing skill.

[@Dahgne]

That's incredible.

[@simplefloridagirl]

Happy birthday Will!

[@jacobkrumwiede5873]

I find it strange that two people have "disliked" this.

[@livingroomsuperstar]

it was the horse and rider.

[@jackfrost2288]

Muslims, or Democrats, or( #uck You Schumer). Democrat Senator Schumer.

[@Flatliner04]

Not sure why anyone would dislike Will Rogers..Maybe they went to their safe place...

[@busman7228]

Trump supporters. If Rogers was alive I can just imagine how he would talk about Trump being the worst president.

[@motogrl1]

I doubt it, he never talked bad about anyone, One of his statements was that he had never met a man he didn't like, grow up. ​@@busman7228

[@pendragonU]

This shows how many years working ranches and cowboy crews the guys dedicated, with countless days and years of their earliest youth. Way before allowed to be handling the livestock. Boys wanted to be ready for and impress the older cowboys, until given their chance and started work before they were 14

[@jimbuford4147]

I bet Will's dad couldn't get much ranch work out of him when he was practicing. He was a great humorist as well. I have visited his childhood home and museum in Ok, fascinating places.

[@stephenpoe2037]

We must also give praise to horse and rider. Especially the Horse !

[@m.stimson3829]

Happy Birthday 🎂! 140years b but too bad there was no parade(in Claremont) this year. Oh! Well that's all now 😇!😴

[@mkworkman]

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator, and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son," Will Rogers was born [on the Dog Iron Ranch in Indian Territory, near present-day Oologah, Oklahoma] to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma).

[@jerwrog]

Dayum

[@undermoonlightglow]

A lost art.

[@fidelrivera2845]

It's not a lost art! The Mexicans are still doing it! Will Rogers learned from them; Vincente Oropeza taught him!! The figure 8 was used by New Mexicans as early as the 1600s and then by the Californios in the 1700s!

[@modaljazz59]

They still doing at gas stations in Wyoming, claro no?

[@neros12346]

That's actually amazing, holy shit

[@alpha1dcd]

Is there anyone else watching this who played high school sports in the Will Rogers League in the Colorado Springs, CO area?

[@jochanaan58]

That's serious rope work! I doubt many, or maybe any, rodeo riders today could duplicate them.

[@hisnamewasyero]

why you no 1080p

[@yettikatz]

Wow!

[@jessicap5010]

Here from featureman

[@sirmolio]

Nice slow motion.. seems they had good frame rates back in 1922..

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

+sirmolio I wondered about that too...clearly they used a touch-up on the rope so you could see it and probably just triple-framed all the shots, because out in the sunlight they didn't have a film that could clearly show everything with a standard style of cranking film. And unless the cameraman could crank at something like 120 fps, I doubt they could've got that.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

***** I forgot about rotoscoping. Oh, we film students...(or ex-film students)

[@ImTheDaveman]

Dayum! Will Rogers was like the original Spiderman! Only using ropes instead of webs.

[@PaulHowardCPA]

sick

[@oeautobody3586]

Dang son thats skill

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 333 The word "lasso" comes from a Spanish word, lazo, meaning "slipknot" or "snare".

[@MrDucklaker]

Did your father ever comment on how many takes that they made of tricks that didn’t work out the first time?

[@modaljazz59]

Heath Kirchart

[@SQRL_TAC]

Featureman brought me here.

[@TheUltimateGC]

Does anyone know who's narrating this? Sounds just like Ramblin' Jack Elliott

[@jacobkrumwiede5873]

TheUltimateGC That's his son, Will Rogers, Jr.

[@TheUltimateGC]

Oh wow, cool, thanks.

[@henrymeguess5579]

The 1st trick is called the figure 8,I remember seeing his tricks in the movies

[@TightwadTodd]

The figure 8 is known as the San Benito loop as that is where it was developed and where Will learned it. He spent time in San Benito county Ca. They still have a contest for it every year at Ballato Park, during the all local Rodeo.

[@vaquero7x]

These are Mexican charro techniques. Vicente Oropeza perfomed these great lazo techniques

[@SmokingSevens]

The original "Dude Perfect" videos.

[@yaojielim6335]

If only i could catch girls the way he catches horses

[@lionheartroar3104]

How is it that no Hollywood film maker has incorporated these amazing tricks in a Western. It could be done with CGI. Hollywood,,,you listening?

[@threeshocks5769]

Imagine the articulation that went into braiding that hemp much less mastering it's usefulness It's better to know how to tie a knot not need it then to need one and not know how to tie it

[@michaelc2509]

Hmmmm

[@geezerguy6410]

Amazing they had CGI back in those days, except it was called talent.

[@xavierhenry9801]

This cat was a bad!!!!

[@ryry4969]

🐨 ❤️

[@mercster]

Here cuz Tom Willet.

[@jesusisking9744]

Who else is here from featureman?

[@Kickex]

I feel like playing Red Dead Redemption now...!

[@spencerlewinson]

that was me

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

🏦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@MR2car]

Now lets go catch some bitchez!

[@jackgibson190]

Will Roger's would have shown how a good a gun would have been if he knew what Democrat or republican would turn out to be. Help the needy , but fuck the lazy!

[@ulrichfriehe3459]

Will was to America what Ron Thomason is to bluegrass music. I love them both.

[@amyjones8114]

Wow!