Will Rogers State Historic Park
Hillside ranch estate of a beloved humorist, with a surviving grass polo field once played by Hollywood stars.
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This guide to Will Rogers State Historic Park in Los Angeles follows the humorist and cowboy philosopher who built a polo field on this hillside before he ever built a house, then filled both with Hollywood friends like Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Walt Disney. It traces him to August fifteenth, nineteen thirty five, when he and aviator Wiley Post set out from Barrow, Alaska, scouting a route toward Siberia. His widow, Betty, later decided what would become of the ranch.
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