Part 3 of a 7 part series of interviews with Dusty Rogers (Roy Rogers, Jr.) discussing his famous parents, the closing of his family's museum and items from the museum that will be up for auction this June - including the story of Dale's gun rig and colt.
when she heard that Mom had "murdered that magnificent bird." It got to be kind of a big deal for a while, until the county sheriff, a friend of my dads' steeped in and put her in her place. If only we had more men like him, now.
Happy Trails,
Norm
theshadow1932 1 year ago
Great story, Dusty! Puts me in mind of something that happened when I was 9 years od, back in '63. My mom was feeding cracked corn to our chickens, when a red tail hawk swooped down and grabbed one. She saw red, grabbed her .222 and knocked the thing down before it was a hundred feet off of the ground. Peacock proud, I cut off the birds feet and took them in to school, for show and tell. Of course, my teacher was a proto-hippy nut job, straight out of San Francisco, who had a Herford cow
theshadow1932 1 year ago