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.
ReviewsTim McCoy "was part of the Old West in its last days and . . . survived into the New without losing his patience or composure. . . . He is a storyteller and a good one, with an engaging story to tell."-C. L. Sonnichsen,
Journal of Arizona History"It's vivid, exciting, colorful stuff, as rich in establishing detail as a Raymond Chandler novel."-William K. Everson,
Films in Review"This spirited autobiography of a rough-and-tumble Irish cowboy explores a long life of excitement in the West."-
American WestBook InformationISBN 9780803281554
Author Tim McCoyFormat Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint Bison BooksPublisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 364g