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The Battalion GGIELIFE King of the Cowboys Western legend Roy Rogers passes away leaving behind a legacy of film. radio and television performai LOS ANGELES (AP) — Happy trails, Roy Rogers. The singing cowboy and one of the last of the white hats from the golden era of Hollywood Westerns died Monday. He was 86. Rogers died in his sleep of conges tive heart failure at his Apple Valley home, in the high desert 90 miles from Los Angeles. “What a blessing to have shared my life together with him for almost 51 years,” said Dale Evans, Rogers’ wife and singing partner. Rogers was a star of television, ra dio and movies, turning out country music songs, 87 Westerns — 26 of them with Evans—and a 1950s TV se ries that continues in reruns. For 12 years, from 1943 to 1954, he was the No. 1 Western star at the box office in a magazine poll of theater op erators. With his trusty horse Trigger, Rogers played the straight-shoot ing good guy who always fought fair—in stead of killing the bad guys, he would shoot the gun out of their hands — and always lived to sing about it. “I really appreciate what he stood for, the movies he made and the kind of values they embodied,” President Clin ton said. “Today there will be a lot of sad and grateful Americans, especially of my generation, because of his career.” Rogers' theme song was “Happy Rogers TYails to You,” sung over a clippity-clop beat and bum-bah-dee-dah bass line. It was co-written by his wife. His movies included “King of the Cowboys,” “Song of Texas,” “The Cow boy and the Senorita,” “Don’t Fence Me In” and “My Pal Trigger.” Rogers and Gene Autry were the most popular cowboy crooners in Hollywood history. “This is a terrible loss for me,” Autry, 90, said in a statement. “I had tremen dous respect for Roy and considered him a great humanitarian and an out standing American. He was, and will al ways be, a true Western hero.” A shrewd businessman, Rogers be came a millionaire many times over through real estate, Roy Rogers restau rants and television productions. He opened a museum near his Ap ple Valley home in 1967. When Trigger died in 1965, Rogers had the golden palomino stuffed and placed on dis play in the museum, to Evans’ chagrin. “I was so angry, I said, ‘All right, but when you go, I’m going to have you stuffed and placed on top ofTrig- ger,”’ she said in 1984. Rogers said: "I told her just make sure I’m smiling.” Born Leonard Slye in Cincinnati on Nov. 5, 1911 (some reference books give his last name as Sly, and list a dif ferent date of birth), Rogers grew up in rural Portsmouth and Duck Run, Ohio. By the time he was a teen-ager, he had made a name for himself locally as a square-dance caller and yodeler. 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Rogers replaced Autry as Repub lic’s top cowboy when Autry left to serve in World War II. Rogers was first teamed with Evans, a radio singer and sometime actress, in “The Cowboy and the Senorita,” 1944, and they married in 1947, 14 months after his first wife, Arlene, died. After they left Republic, Rogers got locked in a legal dispute^ dio’s chief over whetheicl the right to share in theptol their films were sold to 4 Rogers took the battlealcl the U.S. SupremeCourtail 1 le later blamed thebaoltl up movie offers after 1953,y 57 television series,TV specif appearances on everything:! Tonight Show" UAVondertfel the couple in the spotlight,el dom never fit himcomfortaljl "I’m .m miiovenaihecrP 01 once said. “And showbusL even though I’ve loveditsoi 111 ^ has always been hardfom A memorial service was® 1 for Saturday at theChurcIv. wa | h . in ^ppleValiev.tolluu. * nt j cession around the RoyR^®’! Evans Museum in Yictorvi; _ Wil Jri I LUS POTTERY CLASSES Continue July 7! 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