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Film Homage Nino Cochise Grand Marshall Helldorado Days Parade Tombstone Arizona 1968-2013 #1 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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Film Homage Nino Cochise Grand Marshall Helldorado Days Parade Tombstone Arizona 1968-2013 #1 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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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. ... more
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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 wa...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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