Dale Evans, Author

Here on my website I’ve written a lot about my father, Roy Rogers, but not a lot about my Mom, Dale Evans. She was a brilliant, creative, very modern woman who held what a lot of us would now consider old-fashioned values. She grew up in a time when, if women had careers, they were limited to being house keepers, cooks, school teachers and secretaries. Mom, thanks to her mother, was a really great stenographer, but she just couldn’t settle for being put into one position – she had way too much talent, energy and ambition!

When most people hear the name Dale Evans, I think they associate her with Roy Rogers or the song she wrote “Happy Trails,” or her TBN TV show “A Date With Dale” (if they are younger than 50), or with her first book “Angel Unaware.”

Mom actually wrote a whole lot of books. She wrote about anything and everything that she was interested in or that caught her attention. Her books come up on E-bay occasionally and sometimes even on Amazon.com. Her early books she wrote alone and for some of her later books, she had a co-author but the books were still inspired by her and what she wanted people to know about her beliefs.

Just about every time we moved, Mom would join a different church. That means we all joined a new church. We started out Baptists, then we were Episcopalians, Methodists,non-denominational, and, finally Presbyterian. She also read the book of Mormon, Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet,” books on a couple of Eastern religions and about Christian Science. But, Mom was always a Baptist at heart! That was how she grew up in Texas and that is where her heart was.

Here are some of her books that you might look for: “Angel Unaware,” “My Spiritual Diary,” “To My Son,” “Christmas Is Always,” “No Two Ways About It,” “Dearest Debbie,” “Time Out Ladies,” “Salute to Sandy,” “Finding the Way,” “The Woman At the Well” (my favorite), “Dale, My Personal Picture Album,” “cool it or lose it!,” “Where He Leads,” “Let Freedom Ring!,” “Trials, Tears and Triumphs,” “Hear the Children Crying,” “Woman,” “Grandparents Can,” “Let Us Love,” “God In Hard Times,” “The Home Stretch,” “Only One Star,” “Say Yes to Tomorrow,” “In the Hands of the Potter,” “Our Values,” and “Rainbow on a Hard Trail.”