Some think it's an urban legend, but it isn't. Roy Rogers, famed TV and movie cowboy, and a member of Hollywood Lodge 355, really did have his beloved palomino horse Trigger stuffed (actually stretched over a plaster cast) and mounted when Trigger died in 1965. Brother Rogers also commissioned a 24-foot statue of Trigger to sit outside his museum. The mold for that statue also served as the mold for "Bucky the Bronco," which sits outside the Denver Bronco's football stadium. In 2009, the "stuffed" Trigger sold for $266,000 to television channel RFD-TV, which plans to start a Western museum in Omaha. Roy's famous dog Bullet was also stuffed and will stand there alongside Trigger. When the Roy Rogers museum in Branson closed in 2010, developers bought the statue outside for display at the new Apple Valley Village, near Roger's home.
