Category: Cowboy Princess

SATURDAY EVENING POST – PART 4

Trigger is probably the only horse whose adoring public has forced to travel incognito.  Formerly, when Rogers took him on tour, Trigger traveled in a glittering van, embellished with his name and pulled along by a station wagon.  When he emerged from the padded splendor of the trailer’s interior, crowds materialized as if sprung-up from …

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SATURDAY EVENING POST – PART 3

Once signed, Rogers sat around for a few months doing nothing.  Then he sang a song in a dust-storm picture “Under Western Stars.”  The dust-storm sequence was shot on one of the windiest days that California had ever had.  “We had wind machines along, but no wind machine could have equalled what Nature dished up,” said …

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