Tom Mix Western #10

When a wild mustang escapes Tom Mix's corral under suspicious circumstances, he discovers the bars were deliberately cut—and that's just the beginning of a troubling pattern in the town of Dobie. A series of seemingly senseless acts of destruction plague the community, culminating in sabotage that puts innocent lives in immediate danger, forcing Tom to uncover who's behind the vandalism before tragedy strikes. With the help of Sheriff Mike Shaw and a young conscience-stricken witness, Tom must track down the culprits before their dangerous "fun" claims victims.

A newspaper report about the Earth's distant demise sends one cowpoke into a panic—until he realizes he's misread the timeline and breathes easy again. When Cowboy Cal drops by with a peculiar ailment of his own, the fellas get another laugh at his expense in this quick slice of frontier humor from Tom Mix Western.

Colonel Corn gets a lesson in family pride when Korny Kobb boasts about his distinguished ancestry and blue-blooded lineage—complete with tall tales about his relatives' refined tastes and unfortunate mishaps. This quick-witted humor piece trades in exaggeration and wordplay as the two characters riff on family history and social pretense.

Tom Mix stumbles upon the sole survivor of what appeared to be a brutal Indian attack on the road to Dobie—a young woman named Carol Todd whose family was slain en route to the frontier hotel. But Tom's sharp eye for detail reveals the attack was no work of Native Americans, and his suspicions point to someone at the hotel itself who had every reason to want the Todd family dead. Working with Carol, Tom sets a trap to expose the guilty party and bring a killer to justice.

Tumbleweed Jr. dreams of playing guitar like a talented cowboy, but when his father refuses to buy him one, the resourceful boy decides to craft his own from a wooden cigar box and wire. His homemade instrument produces such awful sounds that the whole town flees in dismay—until those same terrible noises accidentally scatter a herd of wild animals straight toward an injured outlaw hiding in the woods, leading to an unexpected turn of fortune for the determined young musician.

Tom Mix uncovers a web of sabotage threatening a new stagecoach line, but the truth proves far more twisted than anyone expected—the real culprit isn't who the town thinks. When an innocent man faces the noose and Tom stumbles onto evidence that turns suspicion inside out, he must race against time to expose the masked treachery before justice becomes murder.

Cowboy Cal claims his oversized duds make perfect sense—after all, he's a much bigger man back in his home town! When Saddlehead shows up looking for work on Rancher Rambler's spread, he gets creative about landing a job, even as hard times threaten the ranch itself.

Uncle Oscar surprises his niece Carol with an extravagant mink coat, but his generosity backfires when she thoughtlessly insults both the gift and, by extension, her well-meaning uncle himself. A humorous lesson in gratitude unfolds as Uncle Oscar takes offense at Carol's ungracious response to his kindness.

Tom Mix trains student marshals in gunplay outside Dobie, but when the notorious outlaw Big-Hat McCoy rolls into town, a deadly scheme unfolds—someone plots to swap the students' blank-loaded guns for live ammunition during the demonstrations. With danger closing in and betrayal lurking where Tom least expects it, he must uncover who's behind the plot before the next lesson becomes a fatal one.