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From Wikipedia: “George Frances “Gabby” Hayes was born in 1885, the third of seven children in Wellsville, New York, and did not come from a cowboy background. In fact, he did not know how to ride a horse until he was in his forties and had to learn for movie roles. His father, Clark Hayes, [...]

I watched the movie Tumbling Tumbleweeds with Gene Autry the other night on TV. Great movie. You can hear the title song by clicking HERE. Billed as “a new kind of entertainment with music, thrills and comedy” in 1935, Tumbling Tumbleweeds presented Gene Autry as “radio’s silver voice now heard on the talking screen in [...]

The Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles near Griffith Park is one of the best museum type organizations I know. We’ve been members since it was first opened and are constantly amazed at the quality and quantity of exhibits, events, research projects, group trips, etc. Gene Autry is of course one [...]