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Gene Autry News

Gene Autry News From the Web

  • 05/25/12 Cool Desert Lodging Source: Men's Journal Today's guy has some seriously cool lodging choices if he wants to take a relaxing yet adventurous off-season Palm Springs weekend – and he should do it now, at the beginning of the off-season, before the hardcore heat strikes in late August.
  • 05/08/12 Route 66 landmark hotel reopens in Carthage with... Source: NBC - KY3.com - Springfield MO One of the halfway stops on the Mother Road re-opened on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting and nostalgia.
  • 05/08/12 John L. Gray chosen to lead National Museum of... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC At the Autry Center, Gray took the collections of the singing cowboy Gene Autry and expanded the museum's vision in two mergers with existing institutions.

Background on Gene Autry

Orvon Grover Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s.

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