Tom Mix - Cowboy
1-6-1880 - Thomas Hezikiah Mix born
in Mix Run, Pennsylvania
(named after grandfather, Rev. Thomas Hollen)
1890 - sees Buffalo Bill's Wild West at
Clear Field Fairgrounds, Pennsylvania
Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley
decides to become a cowboy
1890 - drops out of 4th grade
learns stunt riding and roping
4-26-1898 - joins army as Thomas E. Mix
enlisted for Spanish American War
1899 - St. Louis Fair, meets Will Rogers ?
Tom Mix - drum major for Oklahoma Calvary Band
1901 - re-enlists for army
7-18-1902 - married his first wife, Grace Allen
1903 - marriage annulled
1904 - St. Louis World's Fair
Tom and the Oklahoma Calvary Band perform
Will Rogers - rodeo clown for Colonel Zack Mulhall's Wild West Show
Wiedemann's Shows (1906-1911)
Wiedemann Bros Shows
Wiedemann Bros Big American Show and Custer's Last Charge
Wiedemann's kit Carson Show
Tom Wiedemann - owner
Brownie Silverlake's mother dies ( ? )
Brownie Silverlake still a child
Tom Mix (1909)
Tom Mix looked after Brownie, made sure he had supper every night
1905 - Tom joins Cowboy Brigade
formed to celebrate President Theodore
Roosevelt's election
Mulhall Wild West Show there also
1905 - married Kitty Jewell Perrine
1905 - 1908 - 101 Real Wild West Ranch
worked on trick riding and roping
1906 - Mix was in charge of ring stock on the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Wild West show
1907 - Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Wild West show
1908 - joined with Buffalo Vernon on a little known show titled Cheyenne Bill's Wild West
1909 - married Olive Stokes
1909 - Tom had own Wild West show
1909 - Tom Wiedemann's Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch
Wild West.
(Wilderman Wild West Show)
1909 - Will A. Dickey's Circle D. Wild West show
Dickey was connected to the Selig-Polyscope Film Co
1909 - Tom was in Selig Polyscope Company documentary, Ranch Life in the Great Southwest
1909-1935 - movie career
336 films
(late) 1910 - Tom returns to Miller Bros Wild West Show
1911 - deputy sheriff and night marshal in Dewey Oklahoma
star of early Selig Westerns
Tony the wonder horse
1912 - appeared in a rodeo for Canadian rodeo promoter Guy Wedick in Calgary
7-13-1912 - Mix's daughter Ruth Jane was born in Dewey, Oklahoma
Vernon Seaver's Young Buffalo Wild West show
1913 - Mix settled in Prescott, Arizona and that was his home until 1917
1917 - Mix's last of 236 pictures for Selig was The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917 - William Fox Film Corporation signed Mix
1918 - Mix married Victoria Forde
1920's - first circus performer to get $10,000 per week
1917-1928 - Fox (movies)
Tom Mix made 85 films for Fox
2-12-1922 - Thomasina Mix born
1925 - built a mansion in Beverly Hills
late 1920's - salary $17,500 per week
IN THE DAYS Of The THUNDERING HERD (Selig, 1914)
THE HEART OF TEXAS RYAN (Selig, 1916?)
THE MAN FROM TEXAS (Selig, 1917)
TRAILIN' (Fox, 1921)
SKY HIGH (Fox, 1922)
JUST TONY (Fox, 1922)
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE (Fox, 1925)
the non-western DICK TURPIN (Fox, 1925)
THE GREAT K & A TRAIN ROBBERY (Fox, 1926)
THE LAST TRAIL (Fox, 1927)
6-1-1928 - Painted Post, last Fox film
1929 - 101 Ranch and Wild West had verbal contract
Sells Floto offered more, Mix broke contract
Sells Floto
Tom Mix - (1929-1931)
Emmett Kelly
salary $20,000 weekly
Tom Mix - wild west show
1930 - Victoria Forde Mix legal separation for mental cruelty
for twirling a loaded gun on finger
1931 - Universal Pictures signed Mix, at age 51
1932 - married for the last time to aerialist Mable Ward from Sells Floto
1932 - 1933 - Tom Mix in 9 talking movies for Universal
1933 - Mix toured vaudeville theaters with The Tom
Mix Roundup
The show consisted on Mix and Tony, two liberty horses and the Ward sister's
aerial act
1934 - buy interest in Sam B Dill Circus and Tom Mix Wild West
Tom Mix Circus (1935 - 1938)
Tom buys Sam B Dill Circus
renamed Tom Mix Circus
cast of 150
cast of 50 and 11 band members - 1937
75 trucks - 1937
Tom Mix Circus fails, bad year for circuses - 1938
1940 - Tom passes a detour sign near Florence
Arizona
crashes at washed out bridge, struck in back of neck with metal suitcase
filled with thousands of dollars and checks