Ridin’ With Joy   Singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers bought a spread, the Double R Bar Ranch, near Victorville, California, in the mid-1960s, so he could train and board his Palominos and Thoroughbreds. The property also housed the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum, where the stuffed remains of their famed mounts Trigger and Buttermilk were exhibited. After the couple died, their son Dusty moved the museum to Branson, Missouri, and the ranch in Victorville fell into disrepair. In 2002, family frie


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