Dale Evans, author

"I also wanted to write short stories. I did write several—all flops. They all came back from the publishers accompanied  by the dreaded rejection slip. It dawned on me that millions would never read me like they read O. Henry, so I tried song writing."
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Dale Evans eventually did become a successful author when her book Angel Unaware was published in 1953. The compact booklet was inspired by Roy and Dale's heartbreak over losing their daughter. (Robin Elizabeth Rogers was born with down's syndrome and died two days before her second birthday, in 1952.)

Dale testifies that God merely used her hand to write the book, which became a bestseller. And from the publication of Angel on, Dale wrote. Her reputation as an authoress nearly balanced with her fame as "Queen of the West." She wrote on subjects ranging from women's rights, to child abuse, to problems with youth, all from a Christian's perspective.

Her step-daughter Cheryl writes that shortly after Roy and Dale married (on New Year's Eve, 1947), Dale purchased a trailer at Paradise Cove, Malibu, CA. Dale used this trailer as a writing retreat. ♪

Paradise Cove
By Morgan Hartt , via Wikimedia Commons

Even today, Paradise Cove is known as "America's Most Glamorous Trailer Park."

In Robert W. Phillips' book on Roy Rogers, he points out that the "Tell-A-Tale" book, Roy Roger's Bullet Leads the Way could have been written by Dale Evans. The author is listed as Frances Wood; and Frances is Dale real name; Wood is a family name.

Apparently, Dale never outlined. Some books she wrote on subjects requested by her publishers ; other books she began without a clear idea of what they would become.

Her last book, Rainbow on a Hard Trail, was published in 1999.

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Here is a list of books written by Dale Evans Rogers:

 Angel Unaware
My Spiritual Diary
To My Son
Christmas Is Always
No Two Ways About It!
Dearest Debbie
Time Out Ladies
Salute to Sandy
Finding the Way
The Woman at the Well
Dale -- My Personal Picture Album
cool it or lose it!
Where He Leads
Let Freedom Ring!
Trials, Tears, and Triumph
Hear the Children Crying
Woman -- Be all You Can Be (with Carole C. Carlson)
Grandparents Can (with Carole C. Carlson)
Let Us Love
God in the Hard Times
The Home Stretch
Only One Star (with Fritz Ridenour)
Say Yes to Tomorrow (with Floyd W. Thatcher)
In the Hands of the Potter (with Les Stobbe)
Our Values (with Carole C. Carlson)
Rainbow on a Hard Trail
Happy Trails: Our Life Story (with Roy Rogers, and Jane and Michael Stern)
The Story of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans -- Happy Trails (with  Roy Rogers, and Carlton Stowers)






♪ Evans, Dale, Woman at the Well, Fleming H. Revell, New Jersey, 1970 (pg. 34)

♪ Rogers-Barnett, Cheryl, Cowboy Princess, Riverwood Press, Tennessee, 2015 (pg. 167)