As most Art Roamer fans know, Bongo the Movie Ape made several spurious "B" Western Movies with Art. These are "Art Saves Bongo" (1948), "Art Tames Bongo (1949), "Bongo Saves Art" (1950), and "Good-Bye, Bongo" (1957). Some wags have suggested that there is a film entitled "Bongo Tames Art" but the existance of such a film has never been proven. Bongo always loved and remembered Art and insisted on using Art in Bongo's short-lived television series, "Bongo the Cowboy Ape" (1958-1959). Art played Bongo's sidekick. It was this series that led to Art's involvement in the 1959 TV series, "Pete the Talking Burro", in which Art was the famous burro's voice.

During the autumn of 1965, Art received word that his old friend, Bongo, was gravely ill. Art left his assignment in Chicago, which was filming a Cornie Cacti Cereal ad, and took a Trailways bus to the Red River Trailer Park on the outskirts of Adobe, Arizona.

Bongo's life-long trainer. Sophie Zubay, greeted Art upon his arrival, telling him that Bongo had wandered off the previous night in his delirium.

Art immediately used his keen senses and the tracking skills taught to him by his indian friend, Dave Good-Deer and found the ape's trail, and tracked him for over twenty-four miles through the rugged terrain of the legendary Lost Diablo Mountains.

When Art spotted the large "A-R" ring he had given to Bongo years before, he knew Bongo had suffered a great loss of weight and that the ring had fallen off the loveable beast's finger. It was only a few yards that Art Roamer found Bongo lying face down at the mouth of a tiny cave opening, his outstretched finger pointing inside the dark hole.

Fighting back tears and in a quiet choking voice, Art said, "Okay, old Bongo pal. What are you trying to tell old Art?" And with that, Art felt inside the cave and discovered what Bongo had been trying to reveal: the location of one of Arizona's most sought-after lost gold mines: the Anderson Caverns, worth over six million dollars.

After Bongo was ceremoniously buried on the sprawling A&R Ranch in Thistle, Utah; Art signed over all interest in the Anderson Caverns to Bongo's trainer, Sophie.

To this day Art remains sensitive to the memory of his faithful ape friend. Whenever he sees a person who resembles a monkey, Art invariably will break down and cry.