Roy Rogers and the Ghost of Mystery Rancho: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

ROY ROGERS AND THE GHOST OF MYSTERY RANCHO. By Walter A. Thomkins; illustrated by Andrew Bensen (Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1950), 250 pgs. Image of Roy Rogers with gun drawn in foreground and in background of a skeleton riding a horse.

Roy Rogers (1911-1998), an icon of American pop culture, starred in more than 100 westerns, 1935-1998, and with his wife, Dale Evans, in the popular broadcast series, The Roy Rogers Show (on radio, 1944-1955, and on television, 1951-1964).

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date made: 1950
• author: Thomkins, Walter A.
• illustrator: Bensen, Andrew
• maker: Whitman Publishing, LLC
• Object Name: Book
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 8 in x 5 5/8 in x 1 3/16 in; 20.32 cm x 14.2875 cm x 2.95148 cm
• place made: United States: Wisconsin, Racine
• Subject: Children
• Subject: Literature
• Subject: Television
• Subject: Motion Pictures
• ID Number: 1990.0378.03
• accession number: 1990.0378
• catalog number: 1990.0378.03
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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