Though he was not the first western star of either movies or music, Texas native Gene Autry became a favorite across the ...

and was originally called the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Mr. Autry enjoyed a long career in show business, from radio to TV to movies, and he was known as “America’s Favorite ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator ... where he started performing in so-called B movies featuring him fighting the bad guys ...