Author: MCCOY, TIM
Title: Tim McCoy remembers the West : an autobiography
Description: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.. Ffrst Bison printing. ADDED advertisement for a movie with Tim McCoy XXII + 274 p.and 32 pages of plates with b/w photogr., index SOFTCOVER: Orig. paperback. Tiny number on title page. VERY GOOD) ¶ Well remembered as a star of Western films in the 1920s and 1930s, Tim McCoy was also a working cowboy and rancher, a U.S. Cavalry officer and adjutant general of Wyoming, a performer in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and head of a traveling Wild West show. Because of his adoptive ties to the Arapaho Indians and his intimate knowledge of their ways, he was sought out in 1922 as a technical adviser for the epic film The Covered Wagon. Soon he was in front of the camera as MGM's answer to Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson. His wide-ranging autobiography reveals a gentleman and a gift for telling stories and for making friends with the famous and the obscure. In a new preface, Ronald McCoy provides a moving account of his father's last years, when they collaborated in the writing of Tim McCoy Remembers the West.

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