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She had also become a blonde.

Delage D8-120 Aérosport Coupe, Paris, October 1937, Bachrach, p. This marriage produced two sons, Arturo Peralta-Ramos II and later, Paul. Against her parents wishes, she married him in 1924 in New York’s City Hall and the Countess and Count sailed to Europe. She played a quiet but instrumental role in securing Blue Lake for Taos Pueblo.

58, A Life in Full, Millicent Rogers

While embracing her new life in Taos, Millicent’s heart weakened and her energy once more waned. After departing Los Angeles to be with her son who had been in an accident, Gable’s infidelity began to surface. She was the granddaughter of Standard Oil tycoon Henry Huttleston Rogers, and an heiress to his wealth.^[1]

Rogers is notable for having been an early supporter and enthusiast of Southwestern-style art and jewelry,^[1] and is often credited for its reaching a national and international audience.

While living there, she purchased more than 2,000 Native American artifacts.^[1] In 1947, Rogers and several prominent friends (including authors Frank Waters, Oliver Lafarge and Lucius Beebe) hired lawyers and visited Washington DC to promote the issue of Indian rights and citizenship.^[5] She successfully lobbied for Native American art to be classified as "historic", and therefore protected.^[5]

She died in January 1953, following surgery for an aneurysm.

She also moved her entire bedroom just meager inches in order to fully embrace the view of sacred Taos Mountain from her bed.⁷

Millicent was soon collecting architectural details like windows and doors, and eventually santos, Saints carved by Spanish artisans as she continued collecting Native jewelry.

Millicent’s parents persisted over a three-year period to end the marriage and finally paid the Count $250,000 for the divorce. 158, Millicent Rogers

Living the vaulted luxe life, Millicent acquired many friends, especially in the fashion world including Diana Vreeland, Elsie Schiaparelli, Coco Chanel, Van Day Truex and Charles James and continued to garner attention in Vogue and Harper’sBazaar magazines.

Finally located by a professional auto restorer, David Cooper, he reveals riveting details about the car.

Rogers soon adopted the squaw skirt as her signature look, employing East Coast designers to create her “broomstick” skirts. 64, Archives of Les Amis de Delage, David Cooper.

She had named her property Turtle Walk and her sons soon fell in love with Taos, too. The Millicent Rogers Museum first opened with its collections of both her and her mother but has evolved into much more over seventy-five years.

Millicent brazenly allowed a copy of the letter she wrote to Gable breaking off the romance to Hedda Hopper who published it in the Los Angeles Times.⁶

With her first rejection, Rogers intended to return to the East Coast, but before leaving Hollywood, Millicent’s friends Gilbert and Gaynor invited her on a trip to New Mexico to help  her recover from the Gable breakup.

It, too, has a sweeping view of Taos Mountain. Not happy with the outlines of the exterior of the car, upon inspecting it at the factory, Millicent Rogers took out her lipstick and drew new lines for the rear fenders on the sheet metal. Hollywood’s greatest leading man’s own career profited from being romantically tied to Millicent who designed jewelry for Gable as Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons frequently showcased the couple in their gossip columns.

For the next several years Millicent became the consummate society woman in New York decorating her houses as she also began promoting her personal assets: beauty, taste, and fashion style. And then she sees a necklace of beautiful turquoise that makes her take a quick breath; 294 irregularly shaped tabs of blue and green turquoise are strung with a large pendant of the same stone.

I felt the stars and the growth of the Moon; under me, rivers ran..."
- Millicent Rogers

Millicent Rogers wrote this letter to her son Paul Peralta-Ramos prior to her death in 1953.