Buck Jones Rangers' Club of America
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
label: date made
content: ca 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Pinback button for the Buck Jones Rangers' Club of America. Button has an image of the Western star.
label: Description
content: Actor Buck Jones, born Charles Frederick Gebhart, was a US Army veteran and real-life cowboy before going to Hollywood. First appearing in movies as stuntman, he quickly became a feature performer and appeared in hundreds of movies, almost all Western themed. His youthful fan club, the Buck Jones Rangers, was estimated to include over a million members, and Jones hawked a number of products such as cereal and toy guns.
label: Description
content: The prolific entertainer died in a fire at Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub in 1942.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Cowboy
label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3009.016
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3009
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3009.016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, entertainment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in; 2.54 cm