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Oct 2, 1998

Actor, singer and entrepreneur Gene Autry dies of cancer at his home in Studio City, California. The singing cowboy had five stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, owned the California Angels and became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame

Oct 8, 1998

Michael Martin Murphey receives a Golden Smokey Award from the U.S. Forest Service in Ontario, California, for his work in the prevention of forest fires

Nov 14, 1998

Gene Autry is enshrined in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Also added: "I'll Fly Away" songwriter Albert Brumley, pop singer David Gates and jazz pianist Jay McShann

Dec 21, 1998

Riders In The Sky's Fred "Too Slim" LaBour, and his wife Roberta, have a son, George Harold LaBour, at Nashville's Baptist Hospital

Jan 24, 1999

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Travis Tritt have roles in the CBS-TV movie "Outlaw Justice"

Mar 4, 1999

Silver screen cowboy Eddie Dean dies of emphysema in Westlake Village, California. An actor in numerous western movies, he wrote Tex Ritter's "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven" and Jimmy Wakely's "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)"

Sep 11, 1999

Riders In The Sky make their 4,000th concert appearance, in Puyallup, Washington

Sep 29, 1999

The city of Los Angeles renames the junction of the Ventura and Golden State freeways as the Gene Autry Interchange

Nov 6, 1999

Stuart Hamblen and songwriter Billy Hill, who authored "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)," are added to the Western Music Association Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the InnSuites Hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Nov 24, 1999

Disney's "Toy Story 2" hits American movie theaters, featuring "Woody's Roundup," performed by Riders In The Sky

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