A native Texan who attended Texas A & M and won the All-Around Cowboy title at the Calgary Stampede in Alberta, Canada on September 12, 1913. Toured Australia with Hoot Gibson in a Wild West Show. Made silent films with G. M. Anderson (Broncho Billy) and with Anna Little and Alice Joyce, and appeared in most of the "101 Bison" westerns. Went on tour to England, made several sound films there in addition to performing in his own variety and cabaret act. English stage appearances in C. B. Cochran's "League of Notions (1921), "The Jazz Mistress" at the Hippodrone and in Lew Leslie's "White Birds", in addition to four years in London's "Midnight Follies." Remained in England and became somewhat of an icon, especially among those with an interest in the American West, real or reel.