Tom Mix monument to his horse Tony near Florence Arizona 1984
by David Lee Guss
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Tom Mix monument to his horse Tony near Florence Arizona 1984
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David Lee Guss
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On October 12, 1940 the flamboyant Tom Mix (1880-1940) finished playing poker with the boys at the Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson, Arizona.
On the road to Florence he was unable to brake his 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged Phaeton for road construction, and plunged into a gully, when an aluminum case he was carrying, struck him in the head killing him instantly.
It was an ironic passing for a very athletic man who did many of
his own film stunts.
The gully is now called Tom Mix Wash and a nearby monument has been erected honoring his beloved horse Tony.
The first Western megastar appeared in over 300 films from 1909 to 1935, all but 10 silent. One of his most popular was 1926's "The Great K & A Train Robbery."
A teenage John Wayne appeared as an uncredited extra in it. Wayne's heroes were Mix and Harry Carey (1878-1947).
Carey was in Wayne's first produced film, "Angel and the Badman," 21 years later; the year Carey passed away. Carey was the lead in 26 of John Ford's silent Westerns.
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@2009 David Lee Guss Tom Mix monument to his horse Tony, near Florence, Arizona, 1984-2008
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