In this enjoyable, thoroughly researched volume, author and pop culture commentator George Warren (Cowboy) details the life and work of Gene Autry, the influential star of music, movies and television ...

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 ...

The 227 residents of the Carter County community of Berwyn thought they had the key to growth and prosperity when the cowboy movie star Gene Autry bought a 1,360-acre ranch nearby and announced that ...

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 ...

Introduction: America's Ace Cowboy -- Country-Western Hybrid Music -- Musical-Western Hybrid Film -- New Deal, New West -- The Second New Deal -- The Good Neighbor Policy -- Western Hemisphere Idea -- ...

The former home of America’s “Singing Cowboy” — Gene Autry — is for sale for $8.25 million in one of the oldest and most prestigious neighborhoods in Palm Springs. Gene and Jackie Autry purchased the ...

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 ...

Across advertising and popular media, seemingly everyone is grabbing their fringe, denim and Stetson boots, in a wholehearted embrace of the American West.

Monte Hale, a singing cowboy whose tall frame, strong voice and handsome looks led to dozens of film roles in Westerns during the 1940s, died Sunday after a lengthy illness in Studio City, Calif. He ...

The only performer to earn five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--for film, recordings, television, radio, and live performance--Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king. Journalist George-Warren ...