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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.
During the Depression, his family
moved West and Rogers worked as a
truck driver, peach picker and singer
and guitarist in hillbilly musical
groups. He helped found the Pioneer
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Tumbleweeds” and "Cool Water.”
Rogers’ first screen appearances
were with the Sons in movies such as
“Rhythm on the Range.” But he left
the group in the late ’30s.
He heard they were looking for
singing cowboys at Republic Studios,
and the only way he could get in was
by waiting until the workers began
returning from lunch and sneaking
in with them, he later recalled.
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.
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