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Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy [citation needed] (April 10, 1891 – January 29, 1978) was an American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life. McCoy is most noted for his roles in B-grade Western films.
Tim McCoy. Actor: Two-Fisted Law. One of the great stars of early American Westerns. McCoy was the son of an Irish soldier who later became police chief of Saginaw, Michigan, where McCoy was born.
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Tim McCoy. Actor: Two-Fisted Law. One of the great stars of early American Westerns. McCoy was the son of an Irish soldier who later became police chief of Saginaw, Michigan, where McCoy was born. He attended St. Ignatius College in Chicago and after seeing a Wild West show there, left school and found work on a Wyoming ranch.
- April 10, 1891
- January 29, 1978
May 25, 2022 · Tim McCoy spent years roaming the Wind River Basin. Unlike other cowboys of his day, he made friends with the Arapaho Indians in the area. He pulled night guard with George Shakespear, a long-haired Arapaho who had grown up in a teepee.
Jan 1, 2008 · Tim McCoy was the 20th-century version of Buffalo Bill, respected by Indians and whites for his knowledge of the Old West. The colonel—the rank he achieved during WWI—was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1891. As a youth, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming.
Dec 7, 2023 · Wyoming cowboy and Army cavalry and horse artillery veteran Tim McCoy brought realism to the silver screen. For a lad of Irish-born parents, his Michigan hometown, a lumber community, was too tame. Young Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy longed for excitement.
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One of the great stars of early American Westerns. McCoy was the son of an Irish soldier who later became police chief of Saginaw, Michigan, where McCoy was born. He attended St. Ignatius College in Chicago and after seeing a Wild West show there, left school and found work on a Wyoming ranch.