TIM McCOY -
A REAL ROUGH RIDER
A new book by
Bobby Copeland &
Bill Russell

It's all here...
a. his early life
b. time as a rancher
c. Army career
d. his movies
e. circus tours
f. comments by Tim and co-workers
g. his marriages and family
h. lots of great pictures - and much more.
$19.95 plus $4 shipping
($2 discount to TOCPS readers).
Available from
Bobby Copeland, 104 Claremont, Oak Ridge,
TN 37830.

The Whitest Horse in the movies if you have to paint its rectum (he used another word, with his
This is a story that was told by the late Jock Mahoney in salty vocabulary); but he better be the whitest horse, that's all I
1982 at the Memphis Western Film Convention regarding his gotta say!"
days as Charles Starrett's Stunt Double for the Durango Kid When the series started, Ted Mapes was Starrett's Stunt Dou-
series at Columbia Pictures. ble; but in 1947, Jock Mahoney took over the stunt work--------
In 1945 when Harry Cohn, head of the studio was sold on the and he said that many times he would have to change his black
idea of Starrett appearing on screen solely as the American Ver- outfit 2 to three times a day as they kept a bucket of white-wash
sion of a Zorro type character, "The Durango Kid" clad in an all at the ready to cover up any dirt spots on poor old "Raider",
black outfit wearing a Black handkerchief, Cohn agreed after Durango's White Horse, and yes, they even white-washed the
thinking about it. Then he told the Producers, "If Charlie is go- horses rear end; but would wash it off at days end. Joe Rinando.
ing to be dressed all in black & riding a white horse, I want that Also for you Saddle Pals, Raider, the horse's name, was going
horse to be the whitest in all the movies, pure white, I don't care to be 'Yucca", until one of the gals in the typing pool said
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