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Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Beginnings
To the last frontier
Irish Tom's canary
Big guns and dangerous men
The feel of the drum
Buffalo dance
Forty miles a day on beans and hay
Good medicine
A ticket to Hollywood
Plainsmen in Piccadilly
Meeting the Messiah
The golden years
Under the big top
Moccasin prints across the sky.
Illustrations: Ronald and Tim McCoy
Bugler aboard the U.S.S. Yantic
Embryonic cowboy in Saginaw, 1908
Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody; he remained an inspiration to me
The real thing: Irish Tom's canary, about 1912
Goes in Lodge, Arapaho warrior
Arapahoes, near Ethiti [Ethete], Wyoming, 1912: Red Pipe; Painted Bear; Wolf Elk; Ben Warren; Button; Goes in Lodge; Paul Sleeping Bear; and Chester Armstrong
Goes in Lodge and I talking is sign language, probably in Cheyenne
Yellow Calf, 1922, during the filming of The Covered Wagon
Washakie with his subchiefs; his son, Dick "All-Injun Celebration" Washakie to his right, about 1881
Sharp Nose
Washakie in 1898 / W.C. Brown
Learning to be a cavalryman at Fort Snelling, 1917
The Adjutant General of Wyoming, 1919
General Hugh L. Scott; Custer's Crow scout, White Man Runs Him; and I at the Crow's Nest during our inspection of the Little Bighorn Battlefield in 1919.
Illustrations: Making a motion picture in northern Montana: Mud Head; Short Face; Wades in Water; General Scott; myself; and Crow Chief
While in Montana with Scott, I was given a name by the Blackfeet: Black Eagle. Seated: Berry Child, Crow Chief, unidentified, Lazy Boy, unidentified, and Jim White Calf
Left Hand (one of five Arapahoes who fought against Custer) and [Tim McCoy] in 1922
Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876 / Left Hand, circa 1920
[Request that two young Indian enlistees be returned to their families.]
Yellow Calf as he often appeared in council
Recruiting Bannocks at Fort Hall, Idaho, in 1922 for Jesse L. Lasky's The Covered Wagon
In April, 1923, the train arrives at Arapaho, Wyoming, to take the Indians to Hollywood, to appear in the prologue to The Covered Wagon
Charlie Whiteman ... and his son
Jame Lone Bear; Mike Goggles; Painted Bear; the trader, Pony Hayes; and Broken Horn
Yellow Horse with his eagle wing fan; in the background, Goes In Lodge and [Tim McCoy]
[Indians and Tim McCoy] in Hollywood with Sid Grauman, Jesse Lasky, and James Cruze
Red Pipe in Hollywood.
Illustrations: While Mike Goggles dances to the beat of Charlie Whiteman's drum, Painted Bear, Yellow Horse, Left Hand, and Rising Buffalo look on
After arrival in London in November, 1923, the Arapahoes [looked] at this World War I tank in Hyde Park
At London's Crystal Palace, Charlie White Bull and Jack Shavehead, who is holding a peyote rattle, fan, and staff
Certificates of registration from London's Bow Street Police Station: Mrs. Goes in the Lodge; Goes in the Lodge
In March, 1925, [Tim McCoy] and a mixed party of Arapahoes and Shoshonis [went] to Los Angeles for the prologue to John Ford's The Iron Horse
[Tim McCoy] in a scene from M-G-M's Warpaint, shot on location at Wind River, in August, 1926 [with] old-time warrior Shoshonis and Arapahoes, and Goes In Lodge
Another scene from Warpaint, [McCoy] speaking to White Horse, a son of the Cheyenne war chief at the Little Big Horn, Two Moons
Joan Crawford and I take a bow in Winners of the Wilderness
Claire Windsor in The Frontiersman, 1927
Between films, I returned to Wyoming and my ranch, Eagle's Nest
A poster for Two Fisted Law, 1932
Getting the best of tough hombre, Billie Seward, in Riding Wild, 1935
Tim McCoy in Silent Men [poster], 1933
Ronald Colman; his wife, Benita [Hume]; and [McCoy's] godchild, Juliet.
Illustrations: Photograph used by Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey poster artists for the 1935, 1936, and 1937 seasons
A shot taken when "the Greatest Show on Earth" played Syracuse, New York, in 1936
High Eagle, a Sioux veteran of the Battle of the Little Big Horn [Greasy Grass] and Tim McCoy were in the Ringling show the same year
Talking signs in 1936 with the Sioux chief Sitting Bull's adopted, mute son, John Sitting Bull
Snake dancers, including Iron Eyes Cody, in front of tent labeled "Gas House"
Tim McCoy's Real Wild West, 1938, [program]
Tim McCoy's Wild West and Rough Riders of the World in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1938, the day it closed
The Araphoes meet the Ghost Dance messiah. Behind the seated Wovoka are: Charlie Whiteman, Rising Buffalo, Red Pipe, William Penn, George Shakespear [Shakespeare] Night Horse, Painted Wolf, Little Ant, and Goes In Lodge
[Tim McCoy and Wovoka]
[Tim McCoy at Wovoka's grave some forty years later]
Goes in Lodge [on a horse], [in the Wind River Canyon?]
[Tim McCoy's] first television program in Los Angeles, with kneeling Iron Eyes Cody
Telegram from a fan [Hoot Gibson] of the program
Inga [McCoy]
A favorite photograph from "the Golden Days" [McCoy on a white horse in full regalia].
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Beginnings
To the last frontier
Irish Tom's canary
Big guns and dangerous men
The feel of the drum
Buffalo dance
Forty miles a day on beans and hay
Good medicine
A ticket to Hollywood
Plainsmen in Piccadilly
Meeting the Messiah
The golden years
Under the big top
Moccasin prints across the sky.
Illustrations: Ronald and Tim McCoy
Bugler aboard the U.S.S. Yantic
Embryonic cowboy in Saginaw, 1908
Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody; he remained an inspiration to me
The real thing: Irish Tom's canary, about 1912
Goes in Lodge, Arapaho warrior
Arapahoes, near Ethiti [Ethete], Wyoming, 1912: Red Pipe; Painted Bear; Wolf Elk; Ben Warren; Button; Goes in Lodge; Paul Sleeping Bear; and Chester Armstrong
Goes in Lodge and I talking is sign language, probably in Cheyenne
Yellow Calf, 1922, during the filming of The Covered Wagon
Washakie with his subchiefs; his son, Dick "All-Injun Celebration" Washakie to his right, about 1881
Sharp Nose
Washakie in 1898 / W.C. Brown
Learning to be a cavalryman at Fort Snelling, 1917
The Adjutant General of Wyoming, 1919
General Hugh L. Scott; Custer's Crow scout, White Man Runs Him; and I at the Crow's Nest during our inspection of the Little Bighorn Battlefield in 1919.
Illustrations: Making a motion picture in northern Montana: Mud Head; Short Face; Wades in Water; General Scott; myself; and Crow Chief
While in Montana with Scott, I was given a name by the Blackfeet: Black Eagle. Seated: Berry Child, Crow Chief, unidentified, Lazy Boy, unidentified, and Jim White Calf
Left Hand (one of five Arapahoes who fought against Custer) and [Tim McCoy] in 1922
Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876 / Left Hand, circa 1920
[Request that two young Indian enlistees be returned to their families.]
Yellow Calf as he often appeared in council
Recruiting Bannocks at Fort Hall, Idaho, in 1922 for Jesse L. Lasky's The Covered Wagon
In April, 1923, the train arrives at Arapaho, Wyoming, to take the Indians to Hollywood, to appear in the prologue to The Covered Wagon
Charlie Whiteman ... and his son
Jame Lone Bear; Mike Goggles; Painted Bear; the trader, Pony Hayes; and Broken Horn
Yellow Horse with his eagle wing fan; in the background, Goes In Lodge and [Tim McCoy]
[Indians and Tim McCoy] in Hollywood with Sid Grauman, Jesse Lasky, and James Cruze
Red Pipe in Hollywood.
Illustrations: While Mike Goggles dances to the beat of Charlie Whiteman's drum, Painted Bear, Yellow Horse, Left Hand, and Rising Buffalo look on
After arrival in London in November, 1923, the Arapahoes [looked] at this World War I tank in Hyde Park
At London's Crystal Palace, Charlie White Bull and Jack Shavehead, who is holding a peyote rattle, fan, and staff
Certificates of registration from London's Bow Street Police Station: Mrs. Goes in the Lodge; Goes in the Lodge
In March, 1925, [Tim McCoy] and a mixed party of Arapahoes and Shoshonis [went] to Los Angeles for the prologue to John Ford's The Iron Horse
[Tim McCoy] in a scene from M-G-M's Warpaint, shot on location at Wind River, in August, 1926 [with] old-time warrior Shoshonis and Arapahoes, and Goes In Lodge
Another scene from Warpaint, [McCoy] speaking to White Horse, a son of the Cheyenne war chief at the Little Big Horn, Two Moons
Joan Crawford and I take a bow in Winners of the Wilderness
Claire Windsor in The Frontiersman, 1927
Between films, I returned to Wyoming and my ranch, Eagle's Nest
A poster for Two Fisted Law, 1932
Getting the best of tough hombre, Billie Seward, in Riding Wild, 1935
Tim McCoy in Silent Men [poster], 1933
Ronald Colman; his wife, Benita [Hume]; and [McCoy's] godchild, Juliet.
Illustrations: Photograph used by Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey poster artists for the 1935, 1936, and 1937 seasons
A shot taken when "the Greatest Show on Earth" played Syracuse, New York, in 1936
High Eagle, a Sioux veteran of the Battle of the Little Big Horn [Greasy Grass] and Tim McCoy were in the Ringling show the same year
Talking signs in 1936 with the Sioux chief Sitting Bull's adopted, mute son, John Sitting Bull
Snake dancers, including Iron Eyes Cody, in front of tent labeled "Gas House"
Tim McCoy's Real Wild West, 1938, [program]
Tim McCoy's Wild West and Rough Riders of the World in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1938, the day it closed
The Araphoes meet the Ghost Dance messiah. Behind the seated Wovoka are: Charlie Whiteman, Rising Buffalo, Red Pipe, William Penn, George Shakespear [Shakespeare] Night Horse, Painted Wolf, Little Ant, and Goes In Lodge
[Tim McCoy and Wovoka]
[Tim McCoy at Wovoka's grave some forty years later]
Goes in Lodge [on a horse], [in the Wind River Canyon?]
[Tim McCoy's] first television program in Los Angeles, with kneeling Iron Eyes Cody
Telegram from a fan [Hoot Gibson] of the program
Inga [McCoy]
A favorite photograph from "the Golden Days" [McCoy on a white horse in full regalia].