The Saloon Keeper

The cowboys and Indians did not catch five-year-old Roger Kislingbury’s attention in 1949, the year his dad bought an RCA television that allowed him to watch Western shows and movies. What fascinated him was the saloon where so much of the action took place: the building with an ornate back bar and fancy gambling machines. “To me, the camera never paid enough attention to these mysterious machines,” he admits. During a visit with his Dad to the now-defunct Pony Express Museum in Arcadi