"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 ...

It's hard to fathom a beginning for most Christmas carols. Our grandparents' grandparents probably sang all of the classics, and, even back then, those songs must've sounded like relics from another ...

KENTON, OHIO — During last weekend’s Gene Autry Days festival here, a prominently displayed photograph showed the singing-cowboy movie star standing outside a local factory, surrounded by the proud ...

Gene Autry, also known as the "Singing Cowboy," is one of the most beloved names in music. Well, not just in music -- also songwriting, acting and rodeo performing, to name a few things. In fact, ...

On this day (September 29) in 1907, Orvon Grover Autry was born in Tioga, Texas. Over the course of his 91 years on this earth, he became one of the biggest stars of stage, screen, and radio. He was ...

“Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry” is a well-researched book written by an expert and makes Gene Autry human and likable. It is the story of a wastrel and a philanderer who took ...

The English language is replete with idioms: a jumble of words that come to have meaning far beyond their individual, literal definitions. Idioms are invented curiosities of language. A clever turn of ...

A pair of short features by the western screen idols. In Joseph Kane’s Guns and Guitars (1936, 58 min.), Gene Autry plays a man unjustly accused of murder. In John English’s Utah (1945, 57 min.), Roy ...

Maybe Tulsa could be Bill Hader. Henryetta could be Jim Shoulders or Troy Aikman. Checotah could be Carrie Underwood. Precedent exists. On Nov. 16, 1941, the name of an Oklahoma town — Berwyn — was ...

‘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 ...