"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 the nation from ...

This is a story of when a singing cowboy got upstaged by Santa Claus on Hollywood Boulevard. In the Christmas season of 1949, Gene Autry's version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was the No. 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Which animal is inextricably linked with Santa and Christmas in the minds of young and old? Reindeer, of course. In 1949, singing cowboy Gene Autry probably didn’t believe that Rudolph the red-nosed ...

‘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 ...