Gene Autry Westerns
Author: Boyd Magers

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Fans of Gene Autry will want this stamp set released by the United States Postal Service on April 17, 2010. Check with your local Post Office or purchase on-line at www.usps.com

If you are a fan of Gene Autry or of B-Westerns, this book is a must-have! Published in time for Gene Autry's 2007 Centennial celebration, this comprehensive yet entertaining volume fully documents Gene's extensive career.

 

From the Book's Back Cover:
Completely authorized and researched over a two year period utililzing files at Gene Autry Entertainment which revealed information never before published. All of Gene's Mascot, Republic and Columbia westerns are included, as well as his half-hour TV episodes.

The information on each film includes:

	Release date
	Major production credits
	Complete cast listing, including character played
	Song information including songwriter credits and performers
	Running time
	Filming dates
	Biography information of major players including Smiley Burnette, Pat Buttram, the Cass County Boys, Herbert J. Yates, and various directors, heavies, songwriter and leading ladies
	Filming locations
	Budget and negative cost
	Stunt people involved
	Film synopsis and analysis
	Author notes and comments including working titles, salaries, film and cast background information
	Film comments from Gene and other cast members
	Theater exhibitor comments at the time of release

	Where to find individual songs in Gene's films
	Recurrent themes in Gene's Westerns
	Gene in print
	Gene's appearance in film short subjects and various television shows
	Songs written by Gene used in other movies
	Gene's "Top 10s" as selected by 13 noted Autry enthusiasts
	Handy reference tables listing, by film and TV titles, all of Gene's sidekicks, leading ladies, musical groups, screenwriters, directors, locations
	Champion chronology
	Foreword/Afterword by actors Dick Jones and Jimmy Hawkins

About the Author:
Boyd Magers is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage and enduring memories of small and big screen westerns and the people who populated them. Born in 1940, Boyd grew up riding the range with the B-western heroes - Gene Autry, Monte Hale, Tim Holt, Eddie Dean, Jimy Wakely, Roy Rogers and others. In the 1950s he was drawn to TV and the early screen heroes-Buck Jones, Bob Steele, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard and the rest.

 

Following Armed Forces Radio Network military service in Korea, and during a fifteen year career in radio on the air as program director, Boyd began to contribute aticles on westerns to publications such as Country Style and others.

 

In 1977 he established VideoWest which soon became the most respected source for western movies and TV episodes on video for over 25 years. Over the years he has provided research data and material to over 40 books and several TV/video documentaries. In 1994 he began sel-publishing Western Clippings which has become the primary source for thousands of western readers.

 

Boyd's first book, Westerns Women, was published by Mcarland in 1999 and was followed in 2002 by Ladies of the Western, 2003 -So You Want to See Cowboy Stuff, 2004-The Films of Audie Murphy and 2005-Best of the Badmen.

 

Hardcover. 456 pages. Black and white photographs. Published without book jacket.