W. Richard West Jr. CEO Autry Museum of the American West W. Richard West Jr., the president and chief executive of the Autry Museum of the American West, has announced plans to retire in June 2021.

A lot has changed since Gene Autry’s Western Heritage Museum opened in 1988. For one, it’s now the Autry Museum of the American West. And, the very mission of the museum has evolved. It now boasts one ...

We’re climbing up the old Southwest Museum tower, a 1914 Mission Revival gem that’s now closed to the public due to fire safety issues. The narrow, red-painted staircase, seven stories high, winds ...

He was called “America’s Favorite Cowboy” and the “Singing Cowboy.” Though he was not the first western star of either movies or music, Texas native Gene Autry became a favorite across the nation from ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles' Autry Museum of the American West has acquired the estate of renowned Native American artist Henry Fonseca, increasing its collection by several hundred pieces, ...

John Gray, the founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, has been tapped to lead the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Gray is credited ...

Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who helped popularize country-western music and became one of the most celebrated performers in American history, was born in Tioga, Texas, on ...

By 1960, Gene Autry was long known as one of the most famous entertainers in the United States, earning his nickname “the ...