Background
Cooper, Courtney Ryley was born on October 31, 1886 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Baltimore Thomas and Catherine (Grenolds) Cooper.
Cooper, Courtney Ryley was born on October 31, 1886 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Baltimore Thomas and Catherine (Grenolds) Cooper.
Educational public schools, Kansas City. Ran away from school and became clown in circus.
Special writer, Kansas City Star, 1910-1912, New York World, 1912, Chicago Tribune, 1913, Denver Post, 1913. Press agent Sells-Floto Circus and Colonel West. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), 1914-1915. Private United States Marines, August, 1918.
Later second in command Lieutenant and sent to France to collate history matter concerning marines.
Author: The Eagle’s Eye (with West. J. Flynn). Dear Folks at Home (with K. F. Cowing), 1919.
Memories of Buffalo Bill (with Mistress West. F. Cody), 1919. The Cross Cut, 1921; The White Desert, 1922.
Under the Big Top, 1923.
The Last Frontier, 1923. Lions ‘n’ Tigers ‘n’ Everything, 1924. High Country, 1926; Oklahoma, 1926.
Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms, 1927.
The Golden Bubble, 1928. Sawdust and Solitude (with Lucia Zora), 1928.
Challenge of the Bush. 1929; Go North Young Manitoba, 1929.
Avalanche, 1929; Caged, 1930.
Ghost Country, 1930. Mystery of Four Abreast, 1930. Trigger Finger, 1930.
End of Steel, 1931; Circus Day, 1931.
Old Mom, 1934. Poor Manitoba’s Gold, 1935. The Pioneers, 1937. Also numerous photoplays, including “Weary River” and “Wild Cargo,” “The Plainsman,” Did much assignment work for Saturday Evening Post, particularly on northern frontier of Canada.
Active in interpreting work of Federal bureau of Investigation in magazines as well as in book “Ten Thousand Public Enemies,” 1935, “Here’s to Crime,” 1937, and “Designs in Scarlet,” 1939.
Collaborator with J. Edgar Hoover, director Federal bureau of Investigation, on magazine articles, books and motion pictures on crime subjects.
Member faculty National Police Institute, unites states department of Justice.
Married Genevieve R. Furey, December 20, 1916.