Country music’s relationship with cowboy hats ebbs and flows – they’ll ... cowboy – not a Hollywood type like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry or a Bakersfield buckaroo like Buck Owens.

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry ... Chicago, Autry dropped the Rodgers imitations in favor of emphasizing his roots in Oklahoma. He donned cowboy clothes ...

and was originally called the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Mr. Autry enjoyed a long career in show business, from radio to TV to movies, and he was known as “America’s Favorite Singing ...