Gene Autry  (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998)

Gene Autry gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on radio, in the movies
and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s. His
signature song was "Back in the Saddle Again”, but he is best known today
for his Christmas songs, “Here Comes Santa Clause”, “Frosty the Snowman”,
and his biggest hit, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

Autry was also the owner of the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League
Baseball team from 1961 to 1997, a television station and several radio stations
in Southern California. On September 1, 1962, he bought Portland’s KEX radio 
from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. as part of his company, Golden West 
Broadcasters, Inc. He is a member of both the Country Music and Nashville Song 
writers halls of Fame and was recently made a member of the Baseball Hall of 
Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Jim Abbott and Gene Autry in the Angels dugout in 1990 

             (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)

William Conrad (born John William Cann, Jr.) was a actor, writer, producer and 
director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television. He
created the role of Marshall Matt Dillion for the popular CBS radio series,
Gunsmoke (1952–1961), and narrated the television adventures of Rocky
and Bullwinkle (1959–1964) and The Fugitive on  ABC (1963-1967). Conrad
starred as a detective in the CBS-TV series Cannon (1971-1976), and in the
crime drama Jake and the Fatman on CBS (1987-1992).

William Conrad in a promotion photo for  Gunsmoke  

KGW-TV, 1964
            (September 20, 1919 – November 2, 1998)

               Hector Vincent "Heck Harper" Flateau

Cheyenne is a western television series consisting of 108 black-
and-white episodes broadcast on ABC-TV from September 20,
1955 to April 30, 1963. The show was the first hour-long western,
and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with
continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also
the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio,
Warner Brothers.

Clint Walker and crew on the set of Cheyenne

Clint Walker

The Six Shooter was a weekly old-time radio program that lasted only one
season of 39 episodes on NBC. It aired from its debut on Sunday evening
September 20, 1953 until June 24, 1954. James Stewart starred as Britt
Ponsett, a drifting cowboy in during the final years of the wild west.

Some of the more prominent actors to perform on the program included
Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg, Howard McNear, Marvin Miller, and William 
Conrad. Some actors did multiple episodes playing different characters.  

 
Parley Baer                              Virginia Gregg
 

 
Howard McNear                             Marvin Miller            
                   
  
William Conrad                      

Hal Gibney (original announcer)

The haunting theme music was "Highland Lament" by series
composer Basil Adlam.