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Location: SunShine State | "YOUNG LEONARD SLYE BOUGHT THIS GUITAR FOR $20. HE LEARNED TO PLAY IT AND TO SING - - AND SO BECAME ROY ROGERS, AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED COWBOY STAR."
The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum Collection Auction |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Nice guitars. I wonder what they will bring? |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | I read where Trigger is gonna be auctioned off too :( |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Trigger is in the family museum in Apple Valley, California, where he and Dale lived after retiring. So is Bullet and Nellie Belle. I think they have a bunch of his guitars there as well. |
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Location: SoCal | Actually, the family museum was moved out of Calif. I don't know where it went and with this auction, it sounds like it's being dismantled..... |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Yeah, the museum isn't there any more and I read where everything is going to be auctioned, even Trigger. |
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Location: Tennessee | Trigger, in all his rearing glory, is available at the Christie's auction. So is Nellie Belle. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | OMG, first the old ostrich farm, now the RR Museum. What next for those poor folks in the high desert? That's where my parents live. |
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Roy Rodgers First Guitar and His Ovations