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What’s in a Name

by | Feb 1, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

Fun events that commemorate 21 famous Old West folks.
GENE AUTRY If not for his job as a telegrapher at the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway, Gene Autry may not have become famous as the Singing Cowboy.  By chance, he met Will Rogers in 1928, when he wired a newspaper column back East for the humorist. Autry often sang on the job, and Rogers, upon hearing the boy’s voice, suggested he try it professionally. Autry util


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