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 friends Ernesto and Anne Enriquez bought it. They restored all of the buildings, replaced wiring and plumbing, and cleaned scrub brush from around the half-mile training track.
Now, the Double R Bar is up for sale for $8.5 million. The Enriquez’s are determined to sell the ranch only to someone who will keep it a working horse operation—to celebrate the memory and accomplishments of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and remember just what “Happy Trails” means to so many folks.
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