Lash La Rue Western #50

Lash La Rue arrives at a closed lumber camp to prepare the office for the reading of an old friend's will, only to find someone determined to keep him out—first with a falling tree, then with gunfire. When a thorough search uncovers a trap door rigged with dynamite, Lash realizes the inheritance ceremony itself is in danger, and he must race against time to stop a killer bent on eliminating everyone gathered to hear the will read.

When Big Bow lands a job as a waiter at the Tepee Tea Shoppe, he and his customer Little Arrow engage in an escalating battle of wits and stubbornness over something as simple as a meal order. This 1954 humor piece finds the two characters locked in a comedic standoff where every attempt to resolve the situation only makes things worse, with threats, tall tales, and absurd logic flying faster than the insults.

When Lash LaRue arrests a bandit in Larado, a diamond pocket watch with the initials "T.C." sets off a chain of investigation that leads the roving marshal to uncover a fraud scheme and a murder in Arid Valley—but circumstance and mistaken identity threaten to send an innocent man to the noose before he can prove his case. With a lynch mob closing in and the real culprit still at large, Lash must use all his wits and his famous bull whip to separate truth from suspicion and bring the actual killer to justice.

Wagonwheels trades tall tales about extreme heat, claiming a farm in his old town got so scorching that the chickens had to be fed cracked ice to prevent them from laying hard-boiled eggs. It's a quick dose of desert humor that plays on outrageous exaggeration.