Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autry Museum President and Chief Executive W. Richard West Jr., pictured at the museum in 2015 (Richard Vogel / AP) The man ...

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 ...

A lot has changed since Gene Autry’s Western Heritage Museum opened in 1988. For one, it’s now the Autry Museum of the American West. And, the very mission of the museum has evolved. It now boasts one ...

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 ...

It could have been a scene right out of a Gene Autry horse opera -- a cowboys-versus-Indians-style faceoff, potshots being fired by both sides, a hero riding to the rescue in the final reel. That ...