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This Week in the West: Roy Rogers - How Leonard Slye Became the Legendary Cowboy
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🎙️ Episode 53: Roy Rogers - How Leonard Slye Became the Legendary Cowboy
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This episode of This Week in The West celebrates the life of Leonard Franklin Slye — better known to the world as Roy Rogers — born this week in 1911. Roy’s story began far from Hollywood, in poverty on the Ohio River. After the Depression forced his family west, he worked migrant farm jobs in California, living a life reminiscent of The Grapes of Wrath. But in those hard years he discovered his voice. With a mandolin, a guitar, and a yodel, the shy farm kid stepped behind a…
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