King of the Cowboys News

Apparently quite a few mamas paid no heed to musician Willie Nelson when he advised them "don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys." Plenty of bronc-bustin', bull-ridin', steer-wrestlin', barrel-racin' and calf-ropin' cowboys and cowgirls have converged on Freedom Hall for the North American Championship Rodeo this weekend.

Bill Matthews had been in the Army three years when he received a letter from his wife Juanita in the fall of 1944.

The happy trail to the Roy Rogers - Dale Evans Museum in Branson, will warm your heart and make you smile.

I was a kid when Roy Rogers was "King of the Cowboys", when "Tail Gunner"Joe McCarthy warned of the "red menace", and gangster Frank Costello went on trial.

After 42 years honoring the legacy of the King of the Cowboys and Queen of the West, the Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum will be closing its doors on Dec.

Fans of Westerns made before the advent of color television know how to distinguish, upon first glance, the good guys from the bad the heroes of their serials and matinee features from the villians they've been charged to dispatch.

This is a Legends in Leather duplicate of Burt Lancastera s rig in a oeVera Cruz.a The deep V cut angles the butt outward for a faster draw and was the trademark of gun coach Rodd Redwing.

In 1880, when Thomas Hezekiah Mix was born in Mix Run, Pa., Wyatt Earp and his brothers were walking the streets of Tombstone, Ariz.

BULL SHOALS - Return to those wild and woolly days of the Saturday afternoon matinee with "The King of the Cowboys" when Bull Shoals Theater of the Arts hosts the Roy Rogers Film Festival Saturday afternoon.

Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby was joined by tribal legislators, citizens and employees at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the McSwain Theatre in Ada.

No one else has ever depressed me like Roy Rogers Jr. After seeing his Branson show last year, I felt like I had seen Bambi's mother shot by hunters, then been forced to watch poor, shoeless villagers drink out of a poisoned well - it being the only water source for miles - and, finally, made to read "Old Yeller," twice.

Name him. 3. Identify the "King of the Cowboys." 4.Who knocked out Joe Louis in the 12th round of a 1936 bout? 5. What is the largest living mammal? 6. What is represented by "g" in weights and measures? 7. Willie Hoppe was a champion player of what indoor game? 8. A petrel has webbed feet.

"King of the Cowboys" - not Gene Autry, Roy Rogers or John Wayne, but Tom Mix bore this soubriquet.

Roy Rogers and Trigger are to ride again after the late actor's family announced plans for a film trilogy based on the life of the singing 'King of the Cowboys'. Roy Rogers is shown with Dale Evans and Trigger in this July 1952 file photo.

By DEBORAH DANIELS PDT Staff Writer Whether it's about reliving your childhood memories or sharing stories about meeting Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, everyone attending the Roy Rogers Festival agrees - Roy Rogers is a hometown hero.

Does your cat, dog, coyote or pet wharf rat understand you when you talk to them? According to The Associated Press, 67 percent of pet owners understand them when they talk to them.