Day May 1, 1949

The latest movie moviemaker the Pioneertown people enticed there was Gene Autry, who usually flies hundreds of miles to find backgrounds for his Columbia westerns. They persuaded him Pioneertown looked just as good as Arizona and was considerably closer.

Gene Autry, the most air-minded Hollywoodian, flew the entire company of "The Cowboy and the Indian" to their location site at Pioneertown, California, 125 miles east, in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.