The Great K & A Train Robbery is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Tom Mix and Dorothy Dwan.

The film is based on the actual foiling of a train robbery by Dick Gordon[1] as related by Paul Leicester Ford in his book The Great K & A Train Robbery originally published as a serial in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1896.

[2][3][4] Following a series of robberies of the K & A Railroad, detective Tom Gordon is hired to uncover the mystery.

Tom eventually discovers his duplicity, and with the aid of Tony, his horse, rounds up the villains and wins the hand of Madge.

[5] Local residents gathered every day for three weeks to watch Mix and his famous horse, Tony, perform their own stunts.