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5 unusual facts about Dale Evans


Dale Evans

King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (University of Wisconsin Press).

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Dale Evans as Margie Brooks, the owner of Brooks International Rodeo

Music of South Dakota

The town of Spearfish is home to the High Plains Heritage Center and Museum, which hosts the National Cowboy Song and Poetry Hall of Fame commemorating cowboy performers like Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Patsy Montana, Jim Bob Tinsley and Badger Clark.

Snake River Stampede Rodeo

Gene Autry was the first of such singers, followed by others, such as Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Rex Allen, and the Sons of the Pioneers.

The King and Queen of America

The song's music video showed Lennox and Stewart in a variety of costumes and settings which parodied various aspects of American pop culture, including a game show host and hostess, singing cowboy and cowgirl à la Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan.


Foy Willing

Willing and his band appeared as performers in many Western movies in the 1940s and early 1950s with Charles Starrett, Monte Hale, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

John Harvey Gahan

In 1956 he married Marguerite Depugh who had been a nurse for Spencer Tracy’s son John, and was at the time a nurse to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans children.

Murray County, Oklahoma

On New Year's Eve, 1947, the Flying L Ranch near Davis was the site for the marriage of Roy Rogers, "King of the Cowboys," and Dale Evans.


see also

Bells of Rosarita

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Sons of the Pioneers and later reprised by cast - "Bells of Rosarita" (Written by John Elliott as Jack Elliott)

Lights of Old Santa Fe

The film stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in a story about a rodeo owner and her struggle to make her show a success.