Synopses & Reviews
In 1944 Roy Rogers and Dale Evans lit up the silver screen in The Cowboy and the Senorita, making their names - and lives - inseparable. It was the start of a fifty-six-year partnership that included thirty motion pictures, a long-running hit television series, and a family of nine children.
The Cowboy and the Senorita tells the heartbreaking yet ultimately triumphant story of the "King of the Cowboys" and "Queen of the West." In this new, authorized biography, the Rogers family shares the inside story of these beloved Western heroes, detailing Roy's and Dale's struggles and rise to stardom, the lives of their children, their professional triumphs, and the personal tragedies that befell their family.
Over their long careers, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans came to represent truth, justice, and the American way. Their story will take you back to a simpler time, when wholesome entertainment ruled Saturday matinees and the good guys wore white hats both on and off the screen.
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"A bittersweet and engrossing book."
--True West magazine
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"[Roy and Dale's] real-life story is one the reader will recall long after the book's cover is closed; it's also a chance for a new generation of fans to rediscover this cowboy and his senorita."
--ForeWord magazine
Synopsis
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and and Queen of the West. Off screen, this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the "Code of the West." Now, in this new biography, named for their first feature film as a pair, the Rogers family shares the inside story of these beloved Western icons, detailing their personal struggles and rise to stardom, the lives of their children, the tragedies that befell their family, and their memories of Roy and Dale and Trigger and other sidekicks on the silver screen and behind the scenes. More than sixty photographs of the couple at work and at home are included.
About the Author
Chris Enss is an author, scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television and film, and performed on cruise ships and on stage. In 1995 she co-wrote and voiced one-minute vignettes on gold rush history for KNCO radio in Grass Valley, California. She then went on to produce an audiotape about the Yuba Donner Scenic Byway for the Tahoe National Forest, which led to her first book with Globe Pequot,
With Great Hope: Women of the California Gold Rush, published in 2000. Her second book,
Love Untamed: Romances of the Old West, was released by Globe Pequot in June 2002.
Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West was issued in May 2003, and
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: Women Soldiers, was published in 2004.
Howard Kazanjian is an award-winning producer and entertainment executive who has been producing feature films and television programs for more than twenty-five years. While vice president of production for Lucasfilm Ltd., he produced two of the highest grossing films of all time: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. He also managed production of another top-ten box-office hit, The Empire Strikes Back. Some of his other notable credits include The Rookies, Demolition Man, and the two-hour pilot and first season of J.A.G.
In 2004 Enss and Kazanjian published another Globe Pequot book, Happy Trails: A Pictorial Celebration of the Life and Times of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter I: Humble Beginnings
Chapter 2: Off to California
Chapter 3: A Rough Start
Chapter 4: The Pioneer Trio
Chapter 5: Chicago to Hollywood
Chapter 6: The Rise of a King
Chapter 7: Partners on the Celluloid Plains
Chapter 8: Breaking Trail
Chapter 9: Cowboy King Marries Queen of the West
Chapter 10: A Higher Calling
Chapter 11: Sleeping Angel
Chapter 12: Faith in a Storm
Chapter 13: Adding to the Family
Chapter 14: One More Hard Trail
Chapter 15: Soldier Son
Chapter 16: Rider in the Sky
Chapter 17: Long Live the Queen
Chapter 18: Golden Cloud
Chapter 19: The Legend Lives On
Epilogue
Appendix A: Roy Rogers Filmography
Appendix B: Dale Evans Filmography
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors