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].

Preface to Bison Book edition

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].