Tim McCoy Remembers the West - by Tim McCoy & Ronald McCoy Paperback

About the Book

Reprint. Originally published: 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.

Book 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.

Review Quotes

"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 West

Tim 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