Roy Rogers.

Portsmouth, Ohio also claims Roy Rogers as a hometown native. The town has a museum featuring mementos, hoofprints of Trigger, and handprints of Roy and his son Dusty in the sidewalk. They held an annual Roy Rogers Day with appearances by Roy or Dusty.

His second wife, Grace Arline Wilkins, died days after their son Roy Rogers Jr. Dusty was born due to a blood clot from cesarean complications. Dale Evans became the children’s mother when Dusty was 15 months old. Roy and Arline had two daughters besides Dusty.

Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans served together with the USO in Vietnam.

In a 1977 episode of Wonder Woman, Roy Rogers played a Western man who had adopted children, mirroring his real life. He insisted that star Lynda Carter wear a more modest costume, a sleeved red top and white chinos, rather than her usual bathing suit style.

In 1976, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

Roy and Dale Evans adopted four children; one, Cheryl Rogers, became an actress. A daughter of theirs died in a bus accident in August 1964, and an adopted son died of choking in November 1965.

Roy Rogers received three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for motion pictures at 1752 Vine Street, for radio at 1733 Vine Street, and for television at 1620 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

Roy Rogers proposed to Dale Evans in the fall of 1947 while performing at a rodeo in Chicago, seated on his horse Trigger.

Roy Rogers was a Master Mason, having joined the Masonic Fraternity.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were among three married couples guest-starring on The Muppet Show in 1976, along with Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, and Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell Jansson.

Together, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans raised nine children. Dale had a son from a previous marriage; Roy had three children including one adopted from his previous marriage. The couple had one biological child together and adopted four more.

With Arlene Wilkins, Roy Rogers had two biological children and adopted a daughter.

In 1995, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers.

Roy Rogers’ adopted daughter was Little Doe Rogers.

A Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum operates in Branson, Missouri.

The Sons of the Pioneers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording at 6843 Hollywood Boulevard.

In 1951, Roy Rogers advertised Quaker Oats and Mother’s Oats oatmeal with the slogan Quaker and Mother’s Oats are the same. After the success of Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger, his own show The Roy Rogers Show premiered December 30, 1951, sponsored by Post Cereals, and his oatmeal association was forgotten.

Roy Rogers starred in The Roy Rogers Show on Mutual Radio from 1944 to 1951 and on NBC Radio from 1951 to 1955.

In 1967, Roy Rogers, who had Choctaw ancestry through his mother, was named Outstanding Indian Citizen of the Year by Western tribes.

He was the son of Mattie M. Womack and Andrew Slye.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were commissioned Kentucky Colonels.

He was profiled in the 1998 book Back in the Saddle: Essays on Western Film and Television Actors edited by Gary Yoggy.

As of 2022, Roy Rogers remains the only person inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame twice.

Trigger’s original name was Golden Cloud.

A biography of Roy Rogers appears in the American National Biography, Supplement 1, pages 522-525 Oxford University Press, 2002.

Roy Rogers was nicknamed King of the Cowboys, Dale Evans was Queen of the West, Trigger was the Smartest Horse in the Movies, and Bullet was Roy’s wonder dog.

Roy’s German shepherd Bullet, who appeared in eight movies and his TV show, was originally named Bullet Von Berge.

Roy Rogers was the godfather of Robbie Lee.

The name Roy Rogers was chosen because Roy means king in French and Rogers was taken from the well-known Will Rogers. It was given to him by Republic Pictures when he replaced Gene Autry.