LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Romaine Fielding, the original auteur, came here to test the boundaries of an emerging medium. Tom Mix, the original cowboy, established an American archetype that would endure for more than a century. In 1913, Fielding arrived in the Meadow City and made 10 films over a few short months. Mix made at least 20 more in the San Miguel County railroad town in the fall of 1915. The frontier was bustling, motion pictures were picking up steam, and, for a minute, Las Vegas, New Mexico, was the center of it all. "This was the pioneering of the film industry," says John Snyder, a Colorado-based Western historian and film aficionado. In the vast scope of New Mexico history, Las...
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