Where is trigger buried

She said she always felt a special attachment to Nellybelle when she watched Roy Rogers Westerns as a child. Now that she has the real Nellybelle, Weidel says she's planning to keep it in the private museum of businessman John B. Haines IV, who is in the construction industry, in Pennsburg, Pa. Julie Ann Ream, the niece of another famous singing cowboy, Rex Allen , said she and others in the audience were nervous about where the pieces of the collection would end up.

She said the crowd cheered when an item went to a collector they knew would put the item back in a museum for public viewing. With a Western icon on the line, Gottsch said the auction was heart-pounding. Hit him! Elkies, the auctioneer, said it was the "most colorful, emotional and sentimental" sale she had experienced in her 20 years at Christie's.

At the end of the auction, the audience broke out spontaneously in a rendition of the Roy Rogers theme song "Happy Trails. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in.

We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations. Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired. You can renew your subscription or continue to use the site without a subscription. Then came to the next step: auctioning off the collection. One the one hand, the family was sad to see the huge and sentimental collection split up. On the other hand, they knew that having these unique items go to fans and collectors would make so many people happy for years to come.

Rose Heichelbech. Smiley Burnette , who played Roy's sidekick in his first two films, was watching and mentioned how quick on the trigger this horse was. Roy agreed and decided that Trigger was the perfect name for the horse. Roy was proud of the fact that throughout his more than 80 films, the episodes of his television series, and countless personal appearances, Trigger never fell. Roy once said that "he felt that Trigger seemed to know when people were watching him and that he recognized applause and just ate it up like a ham!

He was so popular that at one time, he even had his own fan club with members from all over the world. Roy was reluctant to "put him in the ground", so Rogers had the horse mounted in a rearing position by Bishoff's Taxidermy of California. The rest of his remains are buried in Thousand Oaks, California on one of Roy's former ranches. Sign In. Edit Trigger. Showing all 11 items. Jump to: Overview 4 Mini Bio 1 Trivia 6. Roy Rogers had several "Triggers" over the years.