[3] He spent his childhood in Beverly Hills, but moved to a ranch in the late 1920s, and grew to love working with horses.

[4] He attended Pomona College, but left in 1935, after his father and pilot Wiley Post died in a plane crash.

[4] During the later part of World War II Rogers joined the Marine Corps and worked as a writer and correspondent.

After the war he and his brother Will Rogers Jr. ran The Beverly Hills Citizen,[2] a newspaper that was published between 1955 and 1962.

"[3] Rogers owned a California ranch, where he trained horses and operated a riding school.