Film Homage Nino Cochise Grand Marshall Helldorado Days Parade Tombstone Arizona 1968-2013 #1
by David Lee Guss
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Film Homage Nino Cochise Grand Marshall Helldorado Days Parade Tombstone Arizona 1968-2013 #1
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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The Native Americans hired as extras for Raoul Walsh's epic Western "The Big Trail" (1930) were members of the Crow or Blackfeet tribes.
An exception was Nino Cochise the long lived grandson of the legendary Chiricahua Apache Cochise.
Nearly 60 years later he appeared briefly in two episodes of the David Dortort produced TV series "The High Chaparral." By then he had only one leg and had difficulty sitting erect in the saddle.
In 1968 he was the grand marshal in the Helldorado Days Parade in Tombstone, Arizona where he made his home.
At 98 Nino published his autobiography "The First 100 Years of Nino Cochise," in which he called his uncle Geronimo "not the world's smartest man."
Nino lived another 12 years to 1984. He is buried in Tombstone's Old Cemetery which predates the tourist attraction Boothill Cemetery in "The Town Too Tough To Die."
Nino was born 5 years earlier than that other Tombstone centenarian Sid Wilson, who was a riding double for the first cowboy star "Broncho Billy" Anderson. Sid made it to 102, passing away in 1981.
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