A display of memorabilia from Roy Rogers and Dale Evans is in the museum, including one of his saddles, clothing and other items. That trip included a visit to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Rogers-Barnett said she and her husband, now empty nesters, also visited Oklahoma on their honeymoon 25 years ago. Her parents married on New Year's Eve 1947 at a ranch near Davis, OK, and Rogers-Barnett said her parents even got in a little hunting during that visit, even though her mother wasn't fond of hunting. "Mom was a great maker of lists, and then it was up to me to check the lists to make sure we didn't leave anything from toys to clothes behind, Rogers-Barnett recalled. The family's personal appearances during the 1950s were often hectic for Cheryl, who was a teenager. Rogers-Barnett said questions she fields all the time and never tires of answering cover the number of children in the family (three are deceased), if she ever rode Trigger (yes), if she knew Gabby Hayes (she adored him) and if she ever saw her parents work (yes, a lot). Last year, she and her husband, Larry, logged 30,000 miles, traveling to rodeo and film events in their recreational vehicle that's painted with scenes from Roy Rogers' and Dale Evans' shows and movies. She attends the National Finals Rodeo each year, too. These days, she rides in special events such as the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year's Day and the recent parade marking Las Vegas' 100th anniversary. And she sang with her parents, as did her siblings, when they made personal appearances at rodeos or state fairs. She even had minor roles in two of those movies, "Trail of Robin Hood and "Outlaws of Paradise Valley. "The boys checked their toy guns at the box office the guns went up on a pegboard, Rogers-Barnett recalled.īut she also got to accompany her father, Roy Rogers, to Republic Studio, where he filmed his movies. She spent every Saturday at the Hitching Post Theater near Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, where Western movies garnered top billing on the weekend marquee. In a recent phone interview from her home in southwestern Utah, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett said she was just like most young kids growing up in the 1950s. It's a great lead-in for the collection of photos throughout the book of Duncan Renaldo and Lee Carrillo who portrayed the Cisco Kid and Pancho, of Gloria Winters who was Penny in the "Sky King Western series, and Gail Davis, who starred as Annie Oakley in her own show but also appeared on "The Lone Ranger and "The Gene Autry Show.įavorite personalities are featured from shows such as "Wagon Train, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, "The Virginian, "Have Gun Will Travel, "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, "Johnny Ringo, "Maverick and, of course, the show which starred Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger and Buttermilk.Īudie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Debbie Reynolds ("How the West Was Won and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown), Paul Newman (seven Westerns) and many more stars including Will Rogers, James Garner, Frankie Laine and Sheb Wooley are also in this fun book that's as much about memories as it is about cooking and recipes. It shows Rogers and Evans and their seven children, seated around their dining room table, hands held while saying grace. The first photo in the book is a 1950 era photo not unlike most of us have in our family photo album. Ken Beck and Jim Clark are the book's co-authors. She will be in Oklahoma City Saturday and Sunday for the 15th Annual Chuck Wagon Gathering at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, where she will sign copies of the book, "The All American Cowboy Grill (Rutledge Hill Press, $16.99). Plenty of photos of the Western stars and details about the shows they starred in are included alongside their recipes.Ĭheryl Rogers-Barnett knows or is acquainted with many of the rodeo and Western stars in the book. Even details about Western-theme museums around the country are scattered throughout the book. Recipes for the book were provided by those stars or their families. The book highlights stars of the television and big screen Westerns as well as rodeo cowboys and country music stars. Baby boomers who watched all the Western shows so prominent on television during the 1950s and '60s will want to check out a new cookbook co-authored by the oldest daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
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