Remembering Gene Autry, born Orvon Grover Autry on September 29, 1907, near Tioga in Grayson County in north Texas – he died October 2, 1998. Autry gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997. From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared