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The Roy Rogers Book: A Reference : Trivia Scrapbook

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This is an excellent reference book, scrapbook, and trivia book combined. Excellent pictures.

Empire Publishing presents "The Roy Rogers Book", reference trivia scrapbook of Roy Rogers (birth name: Leonard Franklin Slye)...birth date November 5, 1911 in Cincinnati Ohio...left us July 6, 1998 in Apple Valley, California...written by Western film historian David Rothel whose accounts of thrilling adventures of B-Western heroes during the Saturday matinees of yesteryear takes us back to our childhood, family and friends...this is a wish come true, reliving those wonderful years from the past through the pen of David Rothel.

Roy was a top box office draw for Republic Pictures...when you went to see him on the big screen, you got exactly what the marquee said...plenty of thrills, action and hard riding with a song or two thrown in for good measure...Roy was a member of several music groups named the Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws, and his own group, the International Cowboys...then came 1934 he formed a group with Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer called the 'Sons of the Pioneers'...he was known as Leonard Slye, then Dick Weston, and finally Roy Rogers...in 1937 Roy went solo and made his first starring film in "Under Western Stars" (1938), featuring Smiley Burnette (Gene Autry's old sidekick), Earle Dwire, Jack Rockwell, Earle Hodgins, Jack Ingram and of course Trigger the smartest horse in the movies...Roy appeared in almost 100 films...then came television with "The Roy Rogers Show"(1951) ran on CBS television network from October 1951 through September 1964.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: (Chapter, Title and Page Numbers)
Acknowledgments
A Few Words Before Saddling Up...
Dedication
Chapter 1 - A Conversation with The King of the Cowboys - 10
Chapter 2 - One Man's Life-Another Man's Trivia - 19
Chapter 3 - Little-Known Facts about a Well-Known Cowboy - 62
Chapter 4 - The Wit and Wisdom of Roy Rogers - 69
Chapter 5 - Roy Rogers - On The Record - 78
Chapter 6 - Living in Reel Time - The Films of Roy Rogers - 107
Chapter 7 - Collecting Roy Rogers Memorabilia - 162
Chapter 8 - The Television Years: "The Roy Rogers Show" TV Log - 193
Epilogue - 215
Selected Bibliography - 216
Discography Index - 217
Filmography Index - 221
About the Author - 223

Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 as a member of the "Sons of the Pioneers" and elected again in 1988 as Roy Rogers "King of the Cowboys"...Roy got his horse "Trigger" in 1938 and rode him in every one of his films and TV shows after that... "Trigger" died in 1965 aged thirty-three...Roy's dog's name was "Bullet" and appeared in almost as many of his films as "Trigger" did...Roy's theme song, "Happy Trails", was written by Queen of the West and his wife Dale Evans...inducted (with his wife Dale Evans) into the "Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum" in 1976...inducted as a member of the "Sons of the Pioneers into the "Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum" in 1995 just three years before his death.

Great job by David Rothel (one of my favorite authors) and Empire Publishing, everything you wanted to know about "The King of the Cowboys"...little-know facts about a well-know cowboy...rare fan magazine reprints of articles...this is the first publication of the credits for Roy's TV series (all 100 episodes)...Don't miss this one...now appearing on Amazon and Empire Publishing ...get your copy today. Great reading in the days and weeks to come...I guarantee it!

Total Pages: 224 ~ Empire Publishing ISBN 0-944019-01-3 ~ (6/01/1987)