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Show Film Cowboy Tom Mix The most famous early American film cowboy was Tom Mix, who in the twenties and early thirties was hot stuff on the screen the idol of millions mil-lions of youngsters. TOM MIX was billed as a Texas Ranger, having been bom in El Paso, having been fiart Indian, etc. That was pubic pub-ic it y fare to make him appear a cowboy. But Tom was born in Mix Run (near DuBois). Pa., in January of 1880. By 1928. he had taken over the title of kins of the cowboys (from Win. S. Hart). For the next decade he was "it." When sound films arrived, although Tom made nine for Universal Pictures in the early thirties, he was less successful. suc-cessful. HIS STAR descended steadily, until in 1940 he died in an automobile crash. Rut when one remembers the dizy twenties. Babe Ruth. speakeasies. Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, etc., Tom Mix belongs in the memory book as "the" cowboy crush of the era. He was a real sportsman, who trained his own horses, became expert at rope tricks, was a good stuntmun and an expert marksman. No phony cowboy. Tom Mix. even though he hailed from Pennsylvania |