Rogers, Roy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...strumming Rogers succeeded Gene Autry as Americas favorite singing cowboy in movies of the mid-1940s. An ex fruit picker and cowpuncher...years later. In 1947, Rogers, by then the "king of the cowboys," married Dale Evans, 1912 2001, b. Uvalde, Tex., as...