Tom Mix Memorial – Florence, Arizona

Tom Mix Memorial – Florence, Arizona

Tom Mix was a silent-movie cowboy who died in 1940 but his legend still goes on today.  He told a great story about himself, most of it not true, about his life prior to entering the movie business.  He claimed to have been a Texas Ranger, to have fought in the Boer War and other wondrous adventures.  He was a working cowboy, a night marshal in Dewey, OK and a peace officer in mining camps in Colorado so there was a little bit of reality in his exaggerations.

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