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Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy was born on April 10, 1891 in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the son of Timothy Henry McCoy and Cathrin Fitzpatrick. His father was the police chief of Saginaw.
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Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the town's lawman, Tim sets off for Silver City to take back money that's rightfully his and hopefully clear his name. But Red has plans of his own and wants the money for himself. Newly remastered. When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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One of the few western movie heroes with bona fide cowboy credentials, Tim McCoy was also a scholar of American western history and Indian folklore. After the sun set on his feature film career, he briefly rode the TV trail as the star of The Tim McCoy Show. Chisholm Trail: Tim describes the establishment of the Chisholm Trail, used by Texas cattlemen to drive their herds north to Abilene. He advises us how to deal with the Indian chiefs we'll meet along the way, and the trick to making river crossings on horseback. Cowboy Equipment: Everything you ever wanted to know about a cowboy's clothing and gear, from hat and boots to spurs and ropes, and 'the cowboy's workbench' -- his saddle. Indian Sign Language: The story of the first appearance in the sky of the sun, the moon and the stars is told in the sign language of the Plains Indians by Chief Yowlachie and translated for us by Tim. Navajo Jewelry: America's favorite western storyteller pow-wows with his audience about the jewelry made by the Indians of the Southwest. BONUS: INDIAN AGENT (UNSOLD 1955 TV PILOT): Government special agent Bill Carson tries to avert the massacre that may result from the Indians' abduction of a white boy. Starring Tim McCoy, Elisha Cook Jr., Michael Pate, William Phipps.
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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.
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Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy was born on April 10, 1891 in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the son of Timothy Henry McCoy and Cathrin Fitzpatrick. His father was the police chief of Saginaw.
McCoy graduated from the local high school and, in 1908, entered St. Ignatius College in Chicago. Although he studied hard, he became increasingly immersed in such tales of cowboy life as Owen Wister's The Virginian. Some years before, McCoy had met with "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and he had learned to ride the wild horses imported by a railroad freight agent into Saginaw. When the Miller Brothers Wild West Show came to Chicago, McCoy's mind was made up. He left college in the late spring of 1909 to become a cowboy.
McCoy ended up in Wyoming, where he worked the range, went on cattle drives, encountered bank robbers and bounty hunters, and met Indians. In his autobiography dedicated in part to "the buffalo-hunting warriors of the Great Plains, " it is apparent that his contact with the Arapaho, particularly his "brother" Goes In Lodge, had a profound influence on his life. He was given the name Black Eagle by the Blackfeet and High Eagle by the Arapaho. He named his Wyoming ranch the Eagle's Nest. In 1917, McCoy read an article in the Denver Post concerning former president Theodore Roosevelt's proposal to mount cavalry to fight "the Hun" in Europe, previous to American involvement in World War I. McCoy decided he would recruit a full squadron of 400 cowboys from Montana and Wyoming and wrote to Roosevelt of his plan. Roosevelt telegraphed, "Bully for you! Do proceed. " President Woodrow Wilson quashed Roosevelt's proposal, but when America became involved in the war, McCoy enlisted. He served as a cavalry officer and was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant colonel, having never seen combat. In 1919 he was appointed adjutant general of the state of Wyoming. The job carried with it the rank of brigadier general, making him a one-star general at the age of twenty-eight. McCoy retired from the army with the permanent rank of full colonel-cavalry. At this time McCoy resumed his friendship with the Indians and with General Hugh Scott, a former Indian fighter.
They together explored Custer's battlefield at the Little Big Horn. Later McCoy would discover previously unknown facts about the battle through conversation with Indians who had been there. Through his knowledge of Indian customs and sign language, McCoy became an expert on Indians, and it was this expertise which first involved him in Hollywood in 1923. Hollywood needed 500 long-haired Indians for the Western epic The Covered Wagon, and someone who could communicate with the Indians. McCoy, bored with his job and life on his ranch, jumped at the opportunity to be a technical adviser. When the film was released in Los Angeles, at Grauman's Egyptian Theater, McCoy and fifty Indians performed a live prologue on stage. Both film and prologue were a success and ran for eight months before relocating to London, where McCoy and another group of Indians were booked into the Pavilion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus. When McCoy returned to Hollywood in 1926, it was as MGM's only Western star. In his career McCoy acted in more than eighty films for several different companies, including Paramount, Columbia, Puritan, and Monogram.
One of his most extraordinary series Westerns was End of the Trail (1932). With a bigger budget than normal and with McCoy, for once, almost completely in control of the project from start to finish, the film is unique in its sympathetic portrait of the Indian. McCoy also starred in The Indians Are Coming (1930), which was released in both silent and sound versions; The One Way Trail (1931); War Paint (1926); and Winners of the Wilderness (1927); the latter two, in critic Jon Tuska's opinion, are "rare incidences of compassion amid hundreds of Westerns picturing Indians as mindless savages. " His best series was made in the 1940's at Monogram, known under the collective title of The Rough Riders. Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, and McCoy starred as three veteran United States marshals.
Although produced in the space of a week or so, the films were well made. The series came to an abrupt end because McCoy was recalled to active duty with the army. Buck Jones died in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in 1942.
In addition to his acting career, McCoy starred in Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus from 1935 to 1938 and in other Wild West Shows. His Colonel Tim McCoy's Real Wild West and Rough Riders of the World had only a month's run in 1938 and was a financial disaster. McCoy's career was interrupted by World War II. He had asked for active duty after losing the Wyoming Republican primary for a United States Senate seat in 1942, and served in France and Germany as a liaison officer between ground and air tactical units. After the war, there were few big-screen opportunities for him in Hollywood, so McCoy turned to television, hosting his own show, the "Tim McCoy Show" (1950 - 1955), which won an Emmy in 1952. The show varied in time from fifteen to ninety minutes and consisted of McCoy speaking about Indian lore, demonstrations by "all that bunch of Indians I had used in pictures for years, " and film clips. McCoy's final films were cameo appearances in Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), as the officer commanding the United States Cavalry unit that rescues Phineas Fogg; in Run of the Arrow (1957), as the army officer who signs the peace treaty with the Sioux; and in Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965).
At the age of seventy-one, McCoy joined the Tommy Scott and His Country Caravan show, demonstrating his skill with a gun and a bullwhip. He toured 300 days per year with the show until he was in his eighties. When he retired, he kept busy writing his autobiography. McCoy died in Nogales, Ariz. , where he had lived for twenty years.
McCoy served as a Lt. Colonel in the U. S. Army both in World War I and World War II. He acted in both silent films and later "talkies" for MGM, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures, the majority of which were Westerns. At the height of his popularity, he was featured on "Wheaties" cereal boxes. He was a leading expert in Indian folklore, Native American sign language, and was a sharpshooter known for his fast draw. He performed for Ringling Brothers Circus, formed his own Wild West show, and hosted "The Tim McCoy" show on television. In his lifetime McCoy received thirteen campaign medals and decorations for heroism, including the Bronze Star and the Legion of Honor. He was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1974 and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
(Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim Mc...)
(One of the few western movie heroes with bona fide cowboy...)
( Well remembered as a star of Western films in the 1920s...)
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Quotations: "I am one of the few men that I know of who has done everything he ever wanted to in life. Any time an idea ever came to me, I made it come true. "
McCoy successfully adjusted from the silent to the sound era. As a cowboy actor, he developed a unique style and look. Articulate and well-spoken, with a distinctive military bearing, he stood out among his more roughneck contemporaries. Although he was probably the fastest on the draw of all the screen cowboys, he chose a more austere image. He dressed all in black and wore first a white hat, then the black hat; for the hero to dress in black was unusual. But it was the attitude toward the Indians in several of his films that is truly distinctive. In the silent films, particularly, authenticity was stressed in depicting Indians and Indian life. McCoy included many of his Indian friends in the films.
McCoy married Agnes Miller in 1917; they had three children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1931. On February 14, 1946, he married Inga Arvad; they had two children.
