Why did Gene Autry and other cowboy actors carry a two-gun rig minus one holster in their movies? Larry R. Snyder Shreveport, Louisiana Allen Weitzel of San Jose, California, a longtime member of the Old West gunfighter group “Original Fall Guys,” helps shed some new light on the subject. In reading Gene Autry Westerns: America’s Favorite Cowboy by Boyd Magers, Weitzel learned that “when Gene started out early in his career, the studio staff gave him that holster. Being new, he didn
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