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Cherokee Cowboy LbNA #4555

Owner:Silver Eagle Supporter Verified
Plant date:Jun 28, 2003
Location:
City:Tulsa
County:Tulsa
State:Oklahoma
Boxes:1
Found by: The Turtles
Last found:Dec 29, 2011
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jun 28, 2003
Replaced (08/18/07)
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 200 yards RT)
Status: alive


SPECIAL THANKS TO COMPASS POINTS FOR HELP REPLACING THIS BOX.

Will Rogers, the "Cherokee Cowboy", was born November 4, 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation (which is now Oologah, Oklahoma). He worked with cattle on his family ranch from an early age and became good with a rope. His hard-earned skills won him jobs trick roping in wild west shows and on the vaudeville stages where he started telling small jokes. Quickly, his wise cracks and folksy observations became more prized by audiences than his expert roping and he became recognized as being a very informed and smart philosopher. Rogers later became a Broadway and film star, a journalist who wrote more than 4,000 syndicated columns in his lifetime, and a radio commentator. He was also the first and only honorary mayor of Beverly Hills in 1925. Rogers loved flying, but on a flight to Point Barrow, Alaska on August 15, 1935, the plane crashed and all on board lost their lives. Will Rogers is still today one of America's most respected and beloved humorists and is famous for saying "I never met a man I didn't like". You can find this letterbox dedicated to Will Rogers in Oxley Nature Center, located within Mohawk Park in the town of Tulsa, not too far from his birth place.

Directions:
From Hwy 75, exit at SR 11 and go east to Mohawk Park and go to the Oxley Nature Center parking area.

Clues:
Go to west end of parking lot and follow the trail that leads to a picnic shelter and the Whitetail trail behind it. Go west on the trail and it will soon turn south (where you will find one of the Oxley Nature Center letterboxes). As the trail turns east, look for a fallen tree on your right (south). The box is hidden within its hollow trunk under some loose bark. Please re-cover well.