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A Pictorial Celebration of the Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: TwoDot an Imprint of Falcon (January 01, 2005)
ISBN: 0762730897
Price: $24.95
More than six decades have passed since Roy Rogers and Dale Evans first
rode the celluloid range together, yet they continue to be loved and
admired in a way few – if any – celebrities can claim. They co-starred
in twenty-nine motion pictures and recorded more than 200 albums
together, and they brought their talents to television in the 1950s,
entertaining a large audience with The Roy Rogers Show.
Happy Trails shares intimate photographs of the lives and
fifty-six-year partnership of this famous couple, both on and off the
screen. From their first singing jobs to their successful film careers,
the photographs chronicle the duo's early struggles and slow rise to
stardom. On the home front, their faith was constantly tested by the
struggles in their personal lives. Roy's first wife died, leaving him
with three children to bring up alone. After Roy and Dale were married,
their two-year-old daughter died, a second daughter died in a tragic
accident and a son died suddenly overseas.
The family photographs
show the family's steadfast faith and endurance during tough times and
their love and warmth during happier times, when the children were
young and their parents were not only superstars, they were "Mom" and
"Dad."
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were the reigning royalty of B
Western movies for more than a decade and they parlayed their fame into
a ten-year hit television show, becoming overnight heroes to millions
of boys and girls. With never-before-published family photographs and
personal reminiscences, Happy Trails shares the struggles, triumphs,
and seldom seen home life of this famous husband-and-wife duo. Included
are private photographs from their childhoods, early singing careers,
marriage, and family life with their nine children, as well as
publicity photographs of the "King of the Cowboys" and the "Queen of
the West" with Trigger, Bullet, Gabby Hayes, and Pat Brady.
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