Buck Jones Rangers' Club of America: Museum Object and Cultural History
Buck Jones Rangers' Club of America: date made: ca 1935. date made: ca 1930. Object Name: button, entertainment.
The object in the museum catalogue
Pinback button for the Buck Jones Rangers' Club of America. Button has an image of the Western star.
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.
The prolific entertainer died in a fire at Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub in 1942.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1935
- date made: ca 1930
- Object Name: button, entertainment
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 1 in; 2.54 cm
- web subject: Entertainment
- Subject: Cowboy
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 2016.3009.016
- nonaccession number: 2016.3009
- catalog number: 2016.3009.016
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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