Champion the Wonder Horse series; he was one of several horses that Autry rode in that production. After learning about the horse through stunt man and movie horse wrangler Tracey Layne, Autry paid $75 for the original Champion, whose sire was a Morgan trotting horse from Ardmore, Oklahoma. Trained to perform numerous tricks, Champion could untie knots, fall, roll over and play dead, come at Autry's whistle, bow, and shake his head yes and no. In one film he pushes Autry into the arms of his leading lady June Storey. By 1939 his reported worth was $25,000. The original Champion died in 1943, at
Gene Autry locations, eight miles apart from each other. Its mission is to reeducate people on how the accepted Euro-American perspectives of the American West was responsible for victimizing the indigenous peoples in the American continent by way of a not-so-nuanced "pop culture" within the Western film and entertainment genre, and to provide a more balanced view of the real history of genocide and racism against the peoples of color who contributed to the history of the American West. From 1934 to 1953, Gene Autry appeared in 93 films. From 1950 to 1955, he also appeared in 91 episodes of "The Gene