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Mass. Senate Passes Bill Naming Rex Trailer State's Official Cowboy

BOSTON (CBS) – The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill making Rex Trailer the "official cowboy of the commonwealth," State House News reports.

Trailer was the host of the popular children's television show "Boomtown," on WBZ-TV from 1956 to 1974.

He died in January 2013 at 84.

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