Johnny Western

I saw my first Gene Autry movie, Guns and Guitars, on my fifth birthday. I was hooked, and I knew right then I wanted to be a singing cowboy like Gene. When I saw Gene Autry in the movies, I never dreamed that 17 years later, he would put me under contract and take me all over America and Canada until he retired in 1957. My love of Western history began in my adopted hometown Northfield, Minnesota, with the legendary James-Younger Gang’s failed Northfield raid in 1876. The first song