MAW to exhibit photographs of Native Americans who worked in Hollywood Westerns (fwd link)

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MAW to exhibit photographs of Native Americans who worked in Hollywood Westerns

(Lander, Wyo.) – The Museum of the American West will be exhibiting
photographs of Native Americans who worked with matinee idol Tim McCoy
in early Hollywood Westerns through August 31.  Reproductions of these
publicity stills will be alongside enlargements of the individuals in
the photograph. Colonel Tim McCoy recruited many families from amongst
the Arapaho and Shoshone to work as movie extras, and the Museum
invites residents of the Wind River Reservation to see if they can
identify their relatives in the photographs, and recall their stories
of Hollywood.

Col. Tim McCoy (1891-1978) was a western film star, circus performer
and producer of the last traveling Wild West Show. As a young cowboy
he was befriended by Goes in Lodge, and through his relationship with
that Arapahoe family he learned Indian Sign Language, the universal
means of communication amongst North American tribes. McCoy was
inspired by all things Western, but it was his friendship and ability
to communicate with Native Americans that got them both to Hollywood
in 1922 to work on “The Covered Wagon”, and many later films.

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