King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS Stanley and Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers) with their instruments, somewhere in Southern California, circa 1931 7 Hugh Farr, Fuzzy Knight, Tim Spencer, Bob Nolan, Mary Carlisle, Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers), and Lillian Miles in The Old Homestead, 1935 8 Roy Rogers and Mary Hart (Lynn Roberts) from the Republic feature In Old Caliente, 1939 11 Roy, Dale, and The Sons of the Pioneers perform in Roll on Texas Moon, 1946 13 Roy and Dale in a publicity photo for one of their early Republic Westerns, circa 1944 15 Dale Evans with dark hair, Apache Rose, 1947 16 The Roy Rogers family in the late 1940s. Dale, Roy Rogers Jr. (Dusty), Roy, Linda Lou, Cheryl 17 Roy Rogers and Clay O'Brien team up as a drifting bronc buster and a homeless boy in Mackintosh and T.], Rogers's last feature film, 1975 22 Hugh Farr, Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, and Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers) in radio publicity photo ofThe Sons of the Pioneers, circa 1934 25 The Sons of the Pioneers and the Randell sisters perform before a microphone, circa 1935 26 Dale Evans, as a vocalist in her first professional job, stands before the WHAS microphone in Louisville, circa 1935-36 28 Dale Evans performed as a vocalist on the Jimmy Durante-Gary Moore Show on CBS in 1946 31 A young Roy Rogers poses with unidentified performer for a publicity photo for CBS broadcast, date unknown 33 IX Copyrighted Material x Illusrrations Dale Evans, Pat Buttram, and Roy Rogers practice their radio script for Saturday Night Roundup, circa 1945-46 34 Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes performing on NBC radio program Saturday Night Roundup, circa 1945-46. Notice Rogers playing the fiddle 35 Roy Rogers, appearing on WIP radio, Philadelphia. Rogers made hundreds of radio appearances over his sixty-seven-year career, date unknown. 43 Roy Rogers glances at a new issue of his Dell comic books, 1952. Notice the Trigger comic on the top shelf of magazines 69 One of the 145 photo covers of Roy Rogers's regular Dell series, Dell comic no. 55, 1952. The beautiful color covers have made Rogers's comics choice collectibles 71 This cover of Dale Evans's DC comic, no. 19, 1951, indicates the far-fetched plots of the stories 76 Roy portrayed the manly hero in every issue of his comic books. Dell comic no. 18, 1949 79 Dale Evans handily used six-guns in many of her comic stories. DC comic no. 19, 1951 82 Roy Rogers and Trigger in the opening scene of The Roy Rogers Show, 1950s 88 On the set of The Roy Rogers Show. Harry Harvey Sr. (left) regularly played SheriffTom Blodgett. His son, Harry Harvey Jr. (center), played occasional roles. Roy Rogers was in every episode 90 Dale Evans often blazed away with her six-shooters on The Roy Rogers Show 92 Dale and Bullet look over the menu of Dale's cafe in Mineral City 94 Dale and Buttermilk in a publicity photo for The Roy Rogers Show, 1950s 97 Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on their famous horses, Trigger and Buttermilk, 1950s 99 Preparing for Happy Trails Theater in the mid-1980s. Rogers and Evans (seated) discuss the program with producer Ross Bagwell Sr. (left) and director Ross Bagwell Jr. (right) 102 Roy Rogers and Raymond Hatton (center) have a conversation with Hank Bell (left) in Rough Riders Roundup, 1939 123 Roy Rogers, Mary Hart (Lynn Roberts), and Raymond Hatton in Rough Riders Roundup, 1939 124 Roy sings to Doris Day in Saga ofDeath ValLey, 1939 127 Roy Rogers as "Fletch" in Dark Command, 1940 128 Copyrighted Material Illustrations List Xl Roy, Sally Payne, and Gabby Hayes cautiously look for villains in the Republic cave in Robin Hood ofthe Pecos, 1941 131 Roy, as a lawyer, encounters Pauline Moore in the courtroom, ArkansasJudge, 1941 133 Publiciry photo of Roy and The Sons of the Pioneers in 1940s: Bob Nolan, Roy Rogers, and Hugh Farr (standing), Karl Farr and Tim Spencer (kneeling). The Pioneers made thirty-two movies with Rogers in the 1940s 137 Roy talks to George Cleveland in The YeLLow Rose ofTexas, 1944 141 Mary Lee is center stage in the spectacular musical climax of Song ofNevada, 1944 142 Roy and Dale after finishing off a villain in BeLLs ofSan AngeLo, 1947 152 Roy gives Dale a quizzical look in South ofCaLiente, 1951 160 Dale Evans, with...