Editing Rex Allen (section)

==Early life==
Allen was born to Horace E. Allen and Luella Faye Clark on a ranch in Mud Springs Canyon, forty miles from [[Willcox, Arizona|Willcox]] in [[Cochise County, Arizona|Cochise County]] in southeastern [[Arizona]], United States.<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0851129390|pages=65/6}}</ref> As a boy he played guitar and sang at local functions with his fiddle-playing father, until high-school graduation when he toured the Southwest as a rodeo rider. He got his start in show business on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]].