Leonard dropped out of McDermott High School and worked with his father in the Cincinnati shoe factory. Their songs and their performances will continue to live on. It is estimated that the sale of the mounted Trigger will be between $100,000 and $200,000. Now, the items will be sold to admirers of this outstanding cowboy couple, who were loved both on and off the screen. The possessions earned and enjoyed by this lanky, good, talented man and his beautiful wife, Dale, in their lifetime were shared with the public at their museums. their son, will be present at both auctions to greet the public. On July 14-15, an auction at High Noon and Christie’s in Manhattan, New York City, will follow. They arranged for major auctions of the items at Denver’s Merchandise Mart’s three-day Western Show on June 25-27. But due to financial circumstances, the Roy Rogers Trust had to close that museum in December 2009. and the estate decided to move it to Branson, Mo., hoping it would attract more customers there. Over the years, the amount of visitors declined so Roy Rogers Jr. We are glad we took time out to sit in the cool theater and watch one of his old time, shoot-’em-up movies.
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Although we never saw Roy or any of his family there, we did see the “Nelly Belle” jeep, “Trigger,” his dog named “Bullet,” movie sets, his gun collection, his 1964 yellow convertible and other memorabilia Roy had saved and stored from his movie career. We were fortunate to have visited the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum when it was located in Victorville, Calif., on our drive out to Fontana, Calif., some years ago.
Dale Evans died of congestive heart failure on February 7, 2001. He married cowgirl actress Dale Evans on New Year’s Eve 1947, and she became “The Queen of the West.” She wrote the song that became his theme song, “Happy Trails to You.” They were married 51 years before Roy died on July 6, 1998. Kids proudly carried Roy Rogers and Dale Evans’ lunchboxes to school. He called his jeep the “Nelly Belle.” His horse was “Trigger” and his dog was “Bullet.” Dale Evans’ horse was “Buttermilk.” All the animals got tons of fan mail from children all around the world. Roy Rogers had a radio show for nine years and a television show from 1951-56. A natural at acting, his career took off. Roy Rogers, with his silver-banded, white, Stetson cowboy hat, auditioned and got the part. When Republic Pictures was in a contract dispute with Gene Autry, they searched for another singing cowboy who could ride, sing and play guitar but would act in pictures for less money.
Roy formed a cowboy singing group called, “The Sons of the Pioneers.” He changed his name to Roy Rogers and got the job on the show, “The Midnight Frolic,” while working and entertaining on weekends. Their first house was built by his father and uncle as a houseboat before they dragged it ashore for their home.Īfter they got settled in a town, Roy sang, yodeled and played his guitar, and his sister encouraged him to interview for KMCS, an Inglewood radio station. The family moved about 100 miles to the east, near Portsmouth, to a farm town called Duck Run. His parents, both self-taught musicians, played for square dances on weekends to help with the bills. 5, 1911, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father worked in a shoe factory. How did this Ohio-born, guitar-playing, skinny cowboy named Leonard Slye, get to become “The King of the Cowboys” on the radio and the silver screen for so many years? So, the “The King of the Cowboys” was also a Friday night bowler. He enjoyed their company, their “down-home” humor, and kidding around as much as they enjoyed Roy’s at the local bowling alley. Instead he wore a baseball cap because he wanted to be “one of the boys” and not a celebrity. He claimed Roy came in the side door and never wore a cowboy hat when he was with fellow bowlers. Each man came from a different place and background yet each one represented the west and what we believed a true cowboy stood for – honesty and justice.Years ago, we talked to someone in California who said he’d bowled on Friday nights with Roy Rogers when Roy and Dale lived in Apple Valley, Calif. Each man had his own distinct personality and style, both on and off the screen. Hart, Gene Autry, Tom Mix and Roy Rogers. Post Office issued commemorative stamps honoring four movie cowboys of the silver screen.
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