Spend the holidays with the King of the Cowboy and the Queen of the West.
Enter to win a copy of The Cowboy and the Senorita: A Biography of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and Happy Trails: A Pictorial Celebration of the Life and Times of
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Dale Evans and Roy Rogers are such icons of the American West – quintessential cowgirl and cowboy – that sometimes its is difficult to remember that their personas were media creations and not the real thing. Neither of them grew up riding the range. Dale Evans, born Frances Smith, was married as a very young teen-ager, and then left to struggle as a single mother. Roy Rogers, originally Leonard Slye, grew up on a hard-scrabble farm.
Talent and the Hollywood machine transformed them into stars. They married after Rogers was left a widower with small children. Tragedy – and the triumph over it – didn’t stop there. Both adoptive and natural parents, they endured the sad loss of three of their children over the years.
Rogers and Evans managed to project an image of wholesomeness decade after decade over changing times.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans made 81 western for Republic Studios
The Roy Rogers Show was among the top NBC television programs from 1951 to 1957
In 1947 alone Roy Rogers received more than 900,000 fan letters
In 1953 alone 408,000 pairs of Roy Rogers slippers, 900,000 lunch kits, and 1,203,000 jeans and jackets were sold.
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