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We look forward to 2010 at the Museum. Yes, it will be different,
in that we will not have our September Film and Music Festival as we
have in the past eighteen years. Those years will always be
remembered with happy memories.
The museum will reopen from its winter break on
Monday, February 1,
2010. The museum hours will be Monday through Friday, from 10 am
to 4 pm. .
Check out the
new display, RED RYDER AND LITTLE BEAVER. Included in this display
our comic books, lobby cards, books, Daisy Red Ryder Commemorative B-B
Gun and mounted picture of Red Ryder and Little Beaver.
We will be
announcing a date for a one day program in June when children will participate. This
program will be under the leadership of Janet McBride.
Children who wish to participate can call the museum beginning February
1, 2010.
"LITTLE BEAVER"
A MOVIE STAR
OF YESTERYEAR WAS THE SPECIAL GUEST,
DECEMBER 5 & 6, 2009, AT THE GUN & KNIFE SHOW IN WICHITA
FALLS, TX.
DON
REYNOLDS
WHO PLAYED RED RYDER’S SIDE-KICK AS “LITTLE
BEAVER” SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS AND MET WITH THE PUBLIC. PEOPLE
LINED UP WITH THEIR DAISY RED RYDER B-B GUNS TO BE AUTOGRAPHED BY THE
LAST “LITTLE BEAVER”. HE HAD AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE THE BOOK WRITTEN
ABOUT HIS ADVENTURES IN HOLLYWOOD, WORKING WITH
GENE AUTRY, ROY ROGERS, AND OTHER
WESTERN HEROES OF THE SILVER SCREEN. HE LATER TRAVELED WITH A WILD WEST
SHOW TO EUROPE. DON SOLD OUT OF HIS BOOK AND HIS SPECIAL “LITTLE
BEAVER” – “RED RYDER” COMBINATION PACKAGE.
JOE TOM WHITE, A SPONSOR OF THE MUSEUM, DID EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING FOR
THIS EVENT. SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE APPROACHED THE BOOTH WHICH HELD
“LITTLE BEAVER” AND THE GENE AUTRY OKLAHOMA MUSEUM PROMOTERS, COWBOY ED
HENDERSON AND HIS SIDEKICK ELIZABETH, ALONG WITH ELVIN AND FLO SWEETEN.
ITEMS FROM THE MUSEUM’S GIFT SHOP WERE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. (COMPLETE
SELLOUT
GUN AND KNIFE SHOW, JANUARY 30TH AND 31ST
LOOK FOR INFORMATION ABOUT
THE UPCOMING GUN AND KNIFE SHOW IN WICHITA
FALLS ON JANUARY 30TH AND 31ST WHERE THE
GENE AUTRY OKLAHOMA MUSEUM WILL ONCE AGAIN HAVE A TABLE. FLO AND
ELVIN SWEETEN WILL PROVIDE KNIVES FOR SALE AND MAYBE A GUN OR TWO (NOT A
SURE THING YET)
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