Wow, that was awesome!!!! Roy had some serious Rope skills. Thanks for finding that one.
uhhh...Jered...
There's a bit of difference between:
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Roy Rogers
An understandable mistake for someone not schooled in our rich Oklahoma culture...
next week we'll work on "gee" and "haw"....;-)
uhhh...Jered...
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You do know that Roy and Dale got married At Gene Autry, Oklahoma, don't you?B-)
Oops.
Actually it was a little north of there, close to Davis.
Roy and Dale's Okie ties
Did not know they were married in Ok.
I DID have the honor of bending an elbow with Roy at the Roy Roger's Apple Valley Inn in California. I believe it was 1969.
My BIL was stationed at Edwards AFB for a while and I was visiting my sis. They lived in Apple Valley and Roy's Restaurant and Bar was real handy. It was a well known detail that Roy tended his own bar until evening time. Seems as though Dale didn't cotton to his drinking at home, so he drank at work.
Never smoked weed with Willy...but had a beer with Roy.
In the late fifties Dale purchased the old Kern Dairy on the west side of OKC to establish the Dale Rogers School for special needs kids. The 160 acres that the dairy sat on was my "Muhlenberg County" when I was a kid.
I'm glad the kids got their school...but a young child's woods are sacred...sorry to see it go.:-(
uhhh...Jered...
Some good traps with the slack taken out just right. He must have had some good mentors and spent hours perfecting those catches. The horse also needed to put some time in practice to to get past the natural instinct to avoid the traps. Like to get a good look at the rope and the hondo he was using, dad liked to have me run so he could rope me, he used a grass rope with a brass hondo and that chunk of metal hurt when it hit you. Most horses that have had their feet pulled out from under them by a rope will lock it up when touched with a thrown rope. The one I rode as a kid needed to be roped to catch her, I was lucky, all I needed to do was get a rope on her anyplace and she stood very still until I led her off, she had some other quirks that impressed the kids and stopped them from wanting to ride her.
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My dad was a big Will Rogers fan. He was apparently one of the best-loved men of his time; not just in OK, but around the country. My dad would have been only 10 when Will Rogers died in 1035, but he said he remembered where he was when that happened...kind of lime me when JFK died.
A couple of my favorite quotes:
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for"
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"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation, The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
trained horse
I noticed in those clips that horse that was getting roped wasn't shy at all. There's one in there where he only ropes a front foot on the horse...as soon as that horse felt that rope he stopped dead in his tracts.
That was some fine rope throwin'....but the trained horse is a marvel, too!
uhhh...Jered...
> An understandable mistake for someone not schooled in our rich Oklahoma culture...
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I sure did miss the boat on that one.:-$ What a bonehead.o.O Obviously I need me some more proper edjamacation.;-)
uhhh...Jered...
> Obviously I need me some more proper edjamacation.;-)
You just need a trip to Oklahoma. 78 years after his passing Will Rogers remains quite the folk hero here.
Roy and Dale's Okie ties
Roy must have been a good person, because my Great Grandfather was friends with him.
Roy would be a guest of honor at many of the family banquet dinners in New York.
In this picture I can only imagine what interesting story was being told.
trained horse
If you think about it, most animals are trained easily because of the instinct to associate actions with food as a reward.
Horses are a different kind of animal to train, I suspect.
This is my great grandfather's horse being trained.
Roy Rodgers explained horse training in this way.
"Trigger can count to ten, open and close doors, pick a gun from a holster, roll a barrel, add and subtract! Everybody falls in love with him and many people want to know how he learned his many tricks. The answer is simple. Trigger is my friend, and he deserves and receives from me the kindness and consideration which should be given to all animals. He responds to that kindness, and enjoys learning how to do things. When he is tired, I let him rest. When he wants to play, I am ready to have some fun, too.
If you have an animal friend, you'll understand"
