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Podcast: The Historians
Episode: Two Amsterdam Cowboys
Description: Two Amsterdam cowboys
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History, Daily Gazette and Amsterdam Recorder
   Amsterdam country music performer and radio host Dusty Miller, whose real name was Elmer Rossi, Sr, had a band called the Colorado Wranglers.
Miller's brother-in-law Barry Frank performed with Miller's band. Frank was a radio engineer well known in the Capital District. Miller had a day job stocking cigarette and other vending machines. In later years he delivered medicines from John Tag’s Guy Park Avenue pharmacy to local customers.
The Colorado Wranglers had a long run at Am...