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Tom Mix & wonder horse "Tony"...



Item # 582974

October 22, 1932

THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Omaha, Nebraska, October 22, 1932

* Tom Mix, 1st Cowboy movie star
* Accident w/ horse "Tony"


This 14 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "HORSE THROWS COWBOY ACTOR" with photo of Mix with "Tony" and caption: "Tony Falls, Crushes Tom Mix" See photos for text here.

Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Light browning, otherwise good.

wikipedia notes: Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.

Category: The 20th Century