Tim McCoy Remembers the West

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 MGMs 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 fathers last years when they collaborated in the writing of Tim McCoy Remembers the West.