Although she racked up thousands of hours of radio time, made scores of movies, and appeared for many years on television, Dale fell somehow short of traffic-stopping celebrity status. Dale Evans comic never sold quite as well as the Roy Rogers series. The Dale Evans watch never buckled around as many little wrists as the Roy model did. Trigger, Roy’s four-legged friend, rated co-star billing as “The Smartest Horse in the Movies,” Dale’s amazing mounts, Pal and later Buttermilk, sometimes didn’t get recognized until a film’s final credits rolled. Still, for a generation of Americans, those boys and girls who spent the Saturday mornings of their childhoods in the popcorn scented darkness of the local picture show, Dale Evans – fearless, loyal, outspoken, hard-working, pretty – remains cowgirl incarnate. When we think cowgirl, we conjure images of the Queen of the West.
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