Alex McCoy – Toppenish, WA
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N 46° 22.517 W 120° 18.579
10T E 706903 N 5139262
Born near The Dalles, Oregon, in 1835, Alex McCoy was a descendant of the Wishram and Wasco tribes.
Waymark Code: WMERYX
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 07/03/2012
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As a boy he attended school at the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon and when he became a young man, he worked as a cowboy for Elisha McDanials and later Ben Snipes. While there, he founded the sport of Bulldogging. He went to Montana and stayed there for many years, being adopted into the Piegan Tribe and was called “Owl Child”.
He was a policeman under four different Indian agents, spoke eight languages and served one term as an Indian judge. He endured religious purification of the Sundance and later became a Shaman.
In 1876 Alex was a witness to the battle of the Little Big Horn. He was a paid government scout during the Modoc Wars.
He returned to the Yakima Valley and received an allotment of land and became active in Indian affairs. In his final years he donated a rare and treasured thirteen star flag to Brady Layman of Toppenish.
Alex died from an infected leg injury at one hundred and four years of age.
The mural was painted by Beryl Thomas and Jack Fordyce in 1996, and is on the Logan Seed Company Building on S. Division Street & W. First Street.
City: Toppenish
Location Name: Logan Seed Company Building on S. Division Street & W. First Street
Artist: Beryl Thomas & Jack Fordyce
Date: 1996
Media: House paint on block wall
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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