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Director, Producer, Actor Born: January 6, 1880 in Mix Run, PA Death: October 12, 1940 in Near Florence, AZ Biography:Popular Hollywood mythology suggests that cowboy superstar "Tom Mix" was a superhuman Western legend who served as everything from war hero to hard-case deputy marshal. Mix did have a remarkable life and career, though many details of his numerous heroic feats were simply the indulgent fabrications of imaginative studio publicists, eager to create a larger-than-life Western mega-star. Mix did indeed serve as a Texas Ranger and was, in fact, a legitimate champion rodeo rider and a genuine true blood cowboy, and it was Mix himself that was responsible for his greatest accomplishments, not the active imaginations of starry-eyed publicists.
Born in 1880 in Mix Run, PA, to a lumberjack father, he seemed destined from the earliest age to become something more than simply another working cowboy. Whetting his appetite for acting in a series of Wild West action shows, Mix was initially hired by the Selig... Full Biography
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