Jerry England is a native Californian
whose love for the romance of the Wild West began over 50 years
ago while watching Saturday movie matinees. Like most kids growing
up in the 1940s and 1950s, Jerry's early heroes were Hollywood
cowboys like Hoppy, Gene, and Roy, but Jerry also came from a
family whose pioneer
heritage
can be back-trailed for over twelve generations across the forests
and prairies of America.
Jerry remembers tales his grand dad told about being raised in
a sod house in Nebraska and later homesteading in Kalispell, Montana
and Kendrick, Idaho.
Jerry is also a serious student of the American Cowboy and draws
much of his inspiration from such heroes as artists Charles M.
Russell, Will James, Jo Mora, Edward Borein, and Till Goodan.
In 1989,
inspired by the work of the late Thomas Molesworth, Jerry established
Lure of the Dim Trails and began a new career as a Western folk
artist. Since 1989, Jerry's cowboy chic furniture has been featured in
such well known publications as Southwest Art, Western Horseman,
Country Living, Sunset, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine,
Home Magazine, Yippy Yi Yea Magazine, and in 1994 the cover of
Country Sampler's WEST.
Books
listing Jerry's work include Cowboy High Style, by Lisa Flood;
Way Out West by Jane and Michael Stern; Western Design by M. J.
Van Deventer; and The Whole Cowboy Catalog by Mc Queary and Wallis
Home
and Garden Television's Carol Duvall Show (Episode CDS-1121) featured
Jerry's Western Furniture November 13, 2001.
Antiques
and collectibles offered on this site are from Jerry's personal
collection. Jerry collected, bought, sold, and traded cowboy,
native American, old West antiques, and sporting collectibles
for more than 30 years. You may have met him at the Cody Old West
Show, the High Noon Show, The Western Design Conference, the Paso
Gathering in Paso Robles, Cowboy Traditions in Tucson, or the
Santa Ynez Vaquero Show in years past. He is a former member of
the National Bit, Spur and Saddle Collectors Association (NBSSCA).
Today
Jerry and his wife Joyce live in Chatsworth,
California, and spend many hours on the trail with their equine
pals: Cash, Zinger,
their wee-one--Biggs, Kasidy May, and Sunup.
Kasidy the newest member of our family is a Cowboy Mounted Shooting horse.
Jerry
is active in the preservation
of horse-keeping in Chatsworth, CA, and has made many positive contributions
in Los Angeles as the president of the Chatsworth Equine Cultural
Heritage Organization (Chatsworth ECHO) which he founded in
2000.
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Jerry England 1995 - 2007
Jerry's
Projects:
Cowboy Mounted ShootingJerry's
Cowboy Painting GalleryJerry's
Cowboy Chic Furniture Gallery
Photos from Jerry's pioneer heritageBack Trail
of a Western FamilyBritish Trail of a Western Family
Cowboy Movies filmed in the Santa Susana
Mountains1950s: A Golden Age Of Horses For A Kid In
The San Fernando Valley
Jerry's Cowboy PoetryCowboyup
AmericaCowboy LingoJerry's PoniesHorse Critters
Remembrance Of Two Cowboy CompadresLos
Angeles Mayor's Chatsworth RideAmerica's
Wild Horses