Cowboy Western #53

Big Bow and Little Arrow land a job raking leaves for the sheriff before morning—but when one tries to slip away and leave the other holding the bag, a scheme to sabotage the work backfires spectacularly. This 1955 humor story from Cowboy Western shows what happens when a partnership built on mutual distrust collides with the consequences of double-crossing.

When the Butler Brothers are released from prison after two years, Sheriff Mike Shaw and the legendary gunslinger Tom Mix quickly learn that their jail time has only fueled their thirst for revenge. The three criminals set their sights on drowning the sheriff by flooding his isolated home through the dam that overlooks the valley, forcing Tom Mix into a desperate race against time to stop them. It's a clash of wills where cunning and marksmanship collide with pure vengeance in the wilderness of Dobie.

When Dusty's stable burns down, he comes up with an unconventional solution: move his horses into his cabin and convince them they're still in the barn. His neighbor Bart offers him a job to help rebuild, but Dusty's peculiar logic and tall tales about his dreams—not to mention his creative solution to a midnight mouse problem—test Bart's patience in this lighthearted frontier yarn. Things come to a head when Dusty's honest assessment of his employer's character costs him the job before he even starts.