"Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry and eager fans help Santa Claus wave to the crowd of a Christmas parade, circa 1940. ‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again ...

"Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry and eager fans help Santa Claus wave to the crowd of a Christmas parade, circa 1940. ‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again ...

‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. 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 ...

Christmas and cowboys seem an unlikely combination. But Christmas celebrations have a lot to do with one particular cowboy, who was also one of the most important personages to ever call Palm Springs ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new Ken Burns PBS series on the history of country music, my guest, Doug Green, talks about the era of the singing cowboy as epitomized by the most popular ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This song book Gene Autry's ...

Writing for the Society for American Baseball Research, Warren Corbett captured Gene Autry’s character. “Autry was the kind of man who paid the bills for old friends in their old age, rode in the ...

Gene became a telegraph operator at the railroad station in Chelsea in Rogers County. When not busy, he passed the singing. In the summer of 1927 a man entered the railroad station as Gene was playing ...

Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who helped popularize country-western music and became one of the most celebrated performers in American history, was born in Tioga, Texas, on ...

Gene Autry may have been known as the Singing Cowboy, but he accomplished so much beyond his incredible entertainment career. He was a gifted country musician and actor but also served in the military ...