Louis L’Amour (1908–1988) was born in Jamestown, North Dakota and is known as a prolific writer of western novels. He never completed high school but traveled to Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico taking low paying jobs but exposing him to western lore. He served in the Army during World War…
I’ve written about the Gene Autry Museum before but here is more about the man. Gene Autry (1907-98) was born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma. He learned to yodel and made appearances on a local radio station where Columbia Records heard him and brought him to perform on the…
Hopalong Cassidy was a character created in 1904 by author Clarence E. Mulford and he appeared in various books and articles but the popular image we all have today started when Hoppy first appeared in motion pictures and then TV. The name “hoppy” came because of a limp caused by…
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