Gene Autry 12 acres. A decade after he purchased Melody Ranch, a brushfire swept through in August 1962, destroying most of the original standing sets. However, the devastated landscape did prove useful for productions such as "Combat!." A complete adobe ranch survived at the northeast section of the ranch. In 1990, after his favorite horse Champion, which lived in retirement there, died, Autry put the remaining 12-acre ranch up for sale. It is now known as the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio and Melody Ranch Studios on 22 acres. The ranch has Melody Ranch Museum open year-round; and one weekend a year,
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