Here on my website I’ve written a lot about my father, Roy Rogers, but not a lot about my Mom, Dale Evans. She was a brilliant, creative, very modern woman who held what a lot of us would now consider old-fashioned values. She grew up in a time when, if women had careers, they were limited to being house keepers, cooks, school teachers and secretaries. Mom, thanks to her mother, was a really great stenographer, but she just couldn’t settle for being put into one position – she had way too much talent, energy and ambition!

When most people hear the name Dale Evans, I think they associate her with Roy Rogers or the song she wrote “Happy Trails,” or her TBN TV show “A Date With Dale” (if they are younger than 50), or with her first book “Angel Unaware.”

Mom actually wrote a whole lot of books. She wrote about anything and everything that she was interested in or that caught her attention. Her books come up on E-bay occasionally and sometimes even on Amazon.com. Her early books she wrote alone and for some of her later books, she had a co-author but the books were still inspired by her and what she wanted people to know about her beliefs.

Just about every time we moved, Mom would join a different church. That means we all joined a new church. We started out Baptists, then we were Episcopalians, Methodists,non-denominational, and, finally Presbyterian. She also read the book of Mormon, Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet,” books on a couple of Eastern religions and about Christian Science. But, Mom was always a Baptist at heart! That was how she grew up in Texas and that is where her heart was.

Here are some of her books that you might look for: “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” (my favorite), “Dale, My Personal Picture Album,” “cool it or lose it!,” “Where He Leads,” “Let Freedom Ring!,” “Trials, Tears and Triumphs,” “Hear the Children Crying,” “Woman,” “Grandparents Can,” “Let Us Love,” “God In Hard Times,” “The Home Stretch,” “Only One Star,” “Say Yes to Tomorrow,” “In the Hands of the Potter,” “Our Values,” and “Rainbow on a Hard Trail.”

I think it’s about time for my yearly commercial!

I want to thank you for buying my books! The sales are steady at Amazon.com but I think you are forgetting that if you want autographed books, you can get them here on my website.  Just click on the Store Button on the above banner. Be sure to fill in the blank where it asks to whom you want me to sign the book.  I don’t charge extra for personalizing the inscription but I do have to charge for postage.

AND, don’t forget that I am also one of the three authors of The All-American Cowboy Grill Cookbook.

I’m told that the biographies make pretty good summer reading and I use the cookbook myself.  It has some tasty, easy recipes and some great pictures of the 200 plus cowboys and cowgirls who shared their pictures, recipes and sometimes their stories.

Happy trails, Cheryl