What really happened on that lonely stretch of highway?
Tom Mix had the pedal to the metal on his bright-yellow Cord Phaeton sports car as he barreled along the dirt road from Oracle Junction toward Florence, Arizona. He was in the midst of a cross-country driving tour, and he had big plans for recharging his flagging circus and movie career. Mix had the supercharged Cord at 80 miles an hour and his siren blaring that Saturday afternoon when he passed two Midwestern boys driving north on the un
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