The Autry is considered to be the only museum of its kind that combines Western history and cultures with Native American ...

He founded the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles in 1988. He died at his home in California in 1998 at age 91 ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.