Tex Ritter Western #29

A lovelorn cowboy named Molasses Mouth is smitten with a young woman named Daisy Mae, but there's one small problem standing between him and matrimonial bliss—and it has everything to do with her answer to his marriage proposal. This lighthearted Western tale proves that sometimes the biggest obstacles to romance are the ones staring you right in the face.

Tex Ritter, prairie ranger, stumbles upon a wagon train held hostage by Link Tomey's extortionate ferry operation—the settlers need to cross Pinto River within two days to claim their land, but can't afford Tomey's outrageous hundred-dollar toll. When diplomacy fails, Tex helps the settlers build their own raft, only to face sabotage from Tomey's desperate gang, who'll stop at nothing to keep the settlers stranded.

Li'l Buck gets called on in class to answer a history question about George Washington, and his reasoning for why the first president was a soldier rather than a sailor makes perfect sense—to him, anyway. It's a quick dose of frontier humor that shows even the best intentions at learning can lead to the most wonderfully backwards logic.

Dusty inherits a watch from his late uncle and sets out hunting, but gets talked into tracking down a dangerous wolf pack terrorizing the local cattle—if he succeeds, he'll be celebrated as a hero with gifts and honors. This 1955 Western humor tale follows Dusty as he weighs the rewards against the very real danger of facing a pack of wild wolves.

Sagebrush spots a cocky young man fresh back from college and decides to teach him a lesson with a trick question—one that exposes the difference between book smarts and common sense in this quick, clever Western humor tale.

When Tex Ritter reclaims his stolen saddle at a county auction in Hard Rock Town, he discovers it holds far more than sentimental value—a map burned into the leather reveals where an outlaw gang's plunder lies hidden. After the criminals ambush him and leave him to die in a prairie fire, Tex must pursue them through treacherous badlands to recover both the treasure and a sacred totem they've stolen from a nearby Indian village. It's a race against time and cunning as Tex outsmarts the outlaws at every turn in this 1955 frontier showdown.

Buffalo Bull tries to con a rancher named Gus Gulibal into buying a worn-out bearskin by spinning an outlandish tale about an exceptionally brilliant bear who could talk, smoke a pipe, and read newspapers. When Gulibal finally sees through the tall tale and demands payback for nearly falling for it, Buffalo Bull learns once again that his schemes have a way of backfiring spectacularly.

Tex Ritter agrees to hold onto a valuable diamond-studded silver horseshoe for his friend Tom Davis after the young rancher wins it at a pitching contest in Twin Pines, hoping to sell it back and save his struggling spread. But when a masked thief attempts to steal the trophy from Tex's hotel room that night, a gunfight erupts that reveals the horseshoe's dark secret—and exposes a scheme far more sinister than simple theft. Tex must untangle the truth before an innocent man pays the price for someone else's greed.