When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.

News Archive: 2007

Holly George-Warren Book Signings for Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Updated December 3, 2007

Author Holly George-Warren is touring the country promoting her new book Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry.

Lucky for you she's just like Gene and loves to meet Gene Autry fans and she might be coming to your town! But without Champion. More dates will be added as events are confirmed.

December 2007

December 8, 2007, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia.
For more information, visit: www.boothmuseum.org

October 2007

October 5-8, 2007
Lone Pine Film Festival, Lone Pine, California.
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September 2007

September 29, 2007
Autry National Center Gala, Los Angeles, California.

August 2007

August 4-9, 2007
Gene Autry Fan Club Convention Los Angeles, California.

July 2007

July 11-14, 2007
Charlotte Western Film Fest, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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June 2007

June 7-9, 2007
Memphis Film Festival, Whispering Woods Hotel and Convention, Olive Branch, MS.
For more information: visit memphisfilmfestival.com
or call (662) 895-2941.
June 20, 2007, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Autry National Center, Benefactors' Preview of Museum Exhibit Gene Autry and the Twentieth-Century West, Los Angeles, California. More
June 21, 2007, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Autry National Center, Members' Preview of Museum Exhibit Gene Autry and the Twentieth-Century West, Los Angeles, California. More
June 22, 2007, 12 noon - 2:00pm
Autry National Center Exhibit Opening Gene Autry and the Twentieth-Century West, Los Angeles, California. More
June 28, 2007
Autry National Center, Dinner and a Movie. Read
June 30, 2007, 4:00PM
The Book Loft in Solvang, CA