Biography, Literature and Literary Studies, Biography and Non-Fiction Prose, General, Historical, Political and Military

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Synopsis
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*.
Publisher information
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- ISBN: 9780803281554
- Number of pages: 274
- Dimensions: 203 x 135 x 18 mm
- Weight: 364g
- Languages: English