Tag: Oklahoma

Chief Bacon Rind (1860-1932)

On: By: Romeyn

An Osage political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bacon Rind (Wah-she-hah, Star-That-Travels) was probably born in Kansas and came to present Osage County, Oklahoma, the former Osage Nation, Indian Territory, during the Osage removal from Kansas in the 1870s. He was an Osage tribal councilman, served as assistant chief in 1904–05, and was elected principal chief in 1912. (Oklahoma Historical Society)

October 1926 issue of The American Indian featuring Chief Bacon Rind on the cover

Oklahoma’s Favorite Son

On: By: Romeyn

85 years ago, Will Rogers died in a plane crash with aviator Wiley Post, in Point Barrow, Alaska Territory. Rogers was born in Claremore, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, and was known for being a vaudeville performer, actor, radio personality, humorist, newspaper columnist, goodwill ambassador to Mexico, and mayor of Beverly Hills,

When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: “I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident like.”
I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. Will Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935)