Jump to content

Talk:Tom Mix: Difference between revisions

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Wyatt Eapr's funeral
m Removed deprecated parameters in {{Talk header}} that are now handled automatically (Task 30)
 
(30 intermediate revisions by 21 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Skip to talk}}
{{WPBiography
{{Talk header|search=yes}}
|living=no
{{WikiProject banner shell|class=C|vital=yes|living=no|listas=Mix, Tom|1=
|class=Start
{{WikiProject Biography|filmbio-work-group=yes|filmbio-priority=mid}}
|priority=
{{WikiProject Circus|importance=Low}}
|filmbio-work-group=yes
{{WikiProject Pennsylvania|importance=Mid}}
|listas=Mix, Tom
{{WikiProject Radio|importance=Mid}}
{{WikiProject United States|importance=Low|AZ=yes|AZ-importance=low}}
{{WikiProject Westerns|importance=High|Biography-task-force=yes}}
}}
}}
{{User:MiszaBot/config
==Place of death==
|archiveheader = {{aan}}
Note to the anonymous poster who put discussion about place of death in the article - please put such discussion here on the Talk page, not in the article itself. - [[User:DavidWBrooks|DavidWBrooks]] 20:24, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
|maxarchivesize = 150K

|counter = 1
Just for the record, here is the snippet that DavidWBrooks deleted:
|minthreadsleft = 4
''"I do not believe the place of death is correct. He actually died some time after the accident in a hospital in Los Angeles, CA. Tom Mix had a rare bllod type and some was rushed to L.A by plane.My father who was a California Highway Patrolman at the time took the blood from the Airport to the Hospital. It was widely reported in the newspapers at the time."''
|algo = old(30d)

|archive = Talk:Tom Mix/Archive %(counter)d
This story is inconsistent with the written recollections of Mix's wife, Olive Stokes as found on this page: http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/index.htm
}}
Looks like Mix died at the scene.
{{notaforum}}
--[[User:Lockley|Lockley]] 20:04, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)


===seatbelt===
==Place of birth==
Conflicting research information on Tom Mix's birthplace. So citation here as Mix Run is not certain. Two seemingly reliable sources conflict:
The statement "He was wearing his seat belt" during the accident was inaccurate. The automotive seat belt was patented in 1956 and the first cars so equipped were Volvos in 1959. Seat belts were not even introduce on aircraft until the 1930s.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/silent-film-star-tom-mix-dies-in-arizona-car-wreck-brained-by-suitcase-of-death History.com cites birthplace as Driftwood PA]
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MI051.html An Oklahoma state University history page cites birthplace as Mix run PA]
Any suggestions / votes on how to handle the reference? [[User:Stevemidgley|Stevemidgley]] ([[User talk:Stevemidgley|talk]]) 06:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)


==museum theft==
==museum theft==
Line 41: Line 47:
In December, 2004, there were some arrests made.
In December, 2004, there were some arrests made.


== External links modified ==
==Mix as an author==

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on [[Tom Mix]]. Please take a moment to review [[special:diff/815332321|my edit]]. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit [[User:Cyberpower678/FaQs#InternetArchiveBot|this simple FaQ]] for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120119170524/http://www.okhistory.org/outreach/affiliates/tommix.html to http://www.okhistory.org/outreach/affiliates/tommix.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

{{sourcecheck|checked=false|needhelp=}}

Cheers.—[[User:InternetArchiveBot|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">InternetArchiveBot</span>''']] <span style="color:green;font-family:Rockwell">([[User talk:InternetArchiveBot|Report bug]])</span> 06:12, 14 December 2017 (UTC)


== Mix was a "sheriff"? ==
I added brief bibliographic information about Mix's authorship. Along with the location of those monographs. [[User:Mark Preston|Mark Preston]] 05:55, 18 March 2007 (UTC)


Under early years:
* Here is what [[User:Mark Preston|Mark Preston]] added to the article, my comments follow:


“He was briefly sheriff of Dewey, Oklahoma.”
According to records held in the California Digital Library (Melvyl) Tom Mix is also an author of:


Is this accurate? Dewey is in Washington County and the county seat is Bartlesville. First of all, even if Dewey was the county seat at the time (was it?), the sheriff would not have been sheriff “of Dewey,” but would have had his office there as sheriff is a county office, its chief law enforcement officer. It is an elected position. Is it possible Mix had been a town marshal?[[User:HistoryBuff14|HistoryBuff14]] ([[User talk:HistoryBuff14|talk]]) 14:28, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The West of yesterday, by Tom Mix, and Tony's story, by himself. Compiled and edited by J. B. M. Clark, from interviews with the author. Los Angeles : The Times-Mirror Press, 1923.


Western songs; piano accompaniment, [ukulele] and guitar chords [comp. by Tom Mix and Will Livernash] Chicago : Cole Pub. Co., c1935.


"Tom came to Indian Territory soon after his marriage to Grace and for the next several years worked at quite a variety of jobs. He was a bartender in Guthrie, a laborer at the Dewey Portland Cement Plant, a drummer in the Territorial Calvary Band, a ranch hand on the 101 Ranch, a performer in the 101 Wild West Show and a night marshal in Dewey." https://www.tommixmuseum.com/about-tom
*The book appears to be a wholly non-notable "fan book" written by a different author (along with a claim that Tony the horse wrote some of the book himself) and sold under Mix's name (which was highly recognizeable in North America in 1923). This reference to a single book which Mix did not write certainly does not support any notion of mentioning Mix as an author.


*The songbook looks like a similar kind of effort, this time in sheet music publishing (kind of like the iPod sales of its day). The credit specifically says this is a compilation, Mix didn't write any of these songs. Mix was never known as a songwriter or singer. There is no evidence the songs in that collection were written by Mix (never mind a songwriter or performer is never called an ''author'').


The Portland Cement Plant is no longer standing however, the jail he managed has been preserved. The Tom Mix Museum is located in Dewey Oklahoma where a theater room shows many of Mix's films.
*These items might fit in the trivia section, though on second thought they don't even seem encyclopedic enough for that. [[User:Gwen Gale|Gwen Gale]] 09:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[[User:Birdman008|Birdman008]] ([[User talk:Birdman008|talk]]) 21:31, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Birdman008


==Mix at Wyatt Earp's Funeral==
== Tom Mix’s horse Tony ==
quotation below from ''American History'' Jul/Aug '94 (accessed through Ebscohost database), for verification and in case anyone wants to work it into the article:


Just attempted my first edit. I tried to go back to correct spelling and notice my edit was apparently deleted. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Bootsm [[User:Bootsm|Bootsm]] ([[User talk:Bootsm|talk]]) 19:35, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
:Mix and Hart served as pallbearers at Wyatt's funeral. Photos of the pallbearers outside the mortuary show Mix, then only forty-nine years old, looking ashen and debilitated. In 1969, Rogers St. John wrote in The Honeycomb: "I found it brave that [Mix] cried all the time he was carrying his old friends casket."

Latest revision as of 22:02, 15 July 2024

Place of birth

[edit]

Conflicting research information on Tom Mix's birthplace. So citation here as Mix Run is not certain. Two seemingly reliable sources conflict: History.com cites birthplace as Driftwood PA An Oklahoma state University history page cites birthplace as Mix run PA Any suggestions / votes on how to handle the reference? Stevemidgley (talk) 06:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

museum theft

[edit]

Hope this information is appropriate here.

Here is info on all handguns and serial numbers that were stolen from the TM Museum on 4-13-02:

Smith & Wesson 357 Magnum 55668 Colt 38 special 56131 Derringer, single shot, no number S & W 38 special 12716 Colt Bisley 45 299014 Iver Johnson 22 202 Colt 38 453520 Colt 38-40 330558 Colt 38 530719 Colt 38 630719 Colt 38 456131 S & W 32-44 2102 Colt 38 524511 matched pair of Colts, serial nos. 530719 and 524511

In December, 2004, there were some arrests made.

[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Tom Mix. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

  • If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
  • If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:12, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mix was a "sheriff"?

[edit]

Under early years:

“He was briefly sheriff of Dewey, Oklahoma.”

Is this accurate? Dewey is in Washington County and the county seat is Bartlesville. First of all, even if Dewey was the county seat at the time (was it?), the sheriff would not have been sheriff “of Dewey,” but would have had his office there as sheriff is a county office, its chief law enforcement officer. It is an elected position. Is it possible Mix had been a town marshal?HistoryBuff14 (talk) 14:28, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]


"Tom came to Indian Territory soon after his marriage to Grace and for the next several years worked at quite a variety of jobs. He was a bartender in Guthrie, a laborer at the Dewey Portland Cement Plant, a drummer in the Territorial Calvary Band, a ranch hand on the 101 Ranch, a performer in the 101 Wild West Show and a night marshal in Dewey." https://www.tommixmuseum.com/about-tom


The Portland Cement Plant is no longer standing however, the jail he managed has been preserved. The Tom Mix Museum is located in Dewey Oklahoma where a theater room shows many of Mix's films. Birdman008 (talk) 21:31, 30 May 2019 (UTC)Birdman008[reply]

Tom Mix’s horse Tony

[edit]

Just attempted my first edit. I tried to go back to correct spelling and notice my edit was apparently deleted. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Bootsm Bootsm (talk) 19:35, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]