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 ...

A pair of short features by the western screen idols. In Joseph Kane’s Guns and Guitars (1936, 58 min.), Gene Autry plays a man unjustly accused of murder. In John English’s Utah (1945, 57 min.), Roy ...

The English language is replete with idioms: a jumble of words that come to have meaning far beyond their individual, literal definitions. Idioms are invented curiosities of language. A clever turn of ...