Autry recorded 640 songs and wrote more than 300. Ultimately, more than 100 million copies of his albums were sold. He ...

The Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum, which shut down temporarily in March of last year, remained closed until a new board could be formed to manage its operations. Now under the leadership of Glenn ...

For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman ...

It reflected his feeling about the West as a place of simplicity and contentment. Whitley sold "Back In The Saddle Again" for $350, a significant amount of money in 1938.

Gene was riding his horse, Champion, down Hollywood Boulevard for the annual Christmas parade in 1946 when, hearing the crowds of children gleefully crying, "Here comes Santa Claus!" ...

The Carnival Comes West August 24th, 1954 30 min Archaeologists, Bonnie West and Jonathan Diggers, uncover ""The Cross of Wealth"", the last of a series of ancient Spanish pieces that represent ...

Gene Autry, who parlayed his small-town Texas roots into a career as a Hollywood singing cowboy and later as a titan in entertainment, real estate and sports, died yesterday. He was 91. Autry died … ...

In 1950, his radio show was adapted to TV as The Gene Autry Show, which ran until 1956 on CBS. After the early 1960s, he largely retired from performing to concentrate on his business interests.

He was called “America’s Favorite Cowboy” and the “Singing Cowboy.” Though he was not the first western star of either movies or music, Texas native Gene Autry became a favorite across ...