Tom Mix Western #14

Tom Mix's peaceful fishing trip at the lake turns into a firefight when mysterious gunmen open fire on him, and later a young boy named Roy reveals he was shot at too—making Tom realize the attacks aren't personal but tied to something happening at the lake itself. With the help of Kid Craig, a former criminal trying to go straight, Tom stakes out the lakeshore and discovers Butch Cruser and his gang have been using the lake to stash stolen gold from stage robberies. Now Tom and Kid Craig must take on the criminals to recover the loot and stop them from killing anyone else who gets too close to their secret.

Whitey Whiskers pulls an old safe from the junk heap, convinced he can sell it for enough money to eat well for a month—he just needs to find the right buyer. When a potential customer questions whether the decrepit safe is actually fireproof, Whitey spins a tall tale about a rancher whose dog got trapped inside during a massive fire, only to emerge frozen solid from the safe's extreme insulation. Things take a turn when the skeptical buyer strikes a match to examine the safe's interior more closely.

Tom Mix investigates the mysterious disappearances of five men who've vanished while crossing the desert near Dobie, and his suspicions lead him to the Jordan Sisters' isolated house at the desert's edge. When the sisters attempt to poison him with lemonade and he discovers a hidden well filled with the bodies of his missing acquaintances, Tom must escape their deadly trap and bring their murderous scheme to justice. A tense race against time as the sisters plot to silence him before he can expose their crimes.

When a $10,000 bank delivery goes wrong in a howling blizzard, Tom Mix must track down both a missing courier and the thief who left him half-buried in snow across a frozen lake. A clever crook's disguise and a web of misdirection threaten to let the crime slip unsolved—until Tom pieces together the truth and confronts the mastermind at an isolated shack. "The Frozen Cache" is a high-stakes winter mystery where Tom's quick thinking proves as valuable as his quick draw.

Cowboy Cal boasts to folks at the general store about building the biggest house in the entire world—so enormous that it'll be six o'clock in the kitchen while ten o'clock rings in the dining room! His tall tale gets a skeptical earful from the locals, who reckon his talk is the only thing likely to be oversized.

When Chuck Chalmers rushes to the sheriff with news that his uncle vanished weeks ago, a quick-witted cowboy points out the absurdity of his logic in this humorous frontier tale. "Do Tell!" is a lighthearted joke about perspective that'll make you chuckle at the backwards reasoning of the Old West.

A cowpoke fears he's coming down with something, but his friend's remedy for fighting germs leads to some fuzzy frontier logic in this humorous Western tale. Meanwhile, Cowboy Cal learns a hard lesson about the dangers of making bold predictions—his uncle's experience with "going out on a limb" proves to be far more literal than expected.

When Tom Mix discovers a murdered man on the trail carrying a mysterious canvas sack, he begins unraveling a dangerous scheme tied to cattle rustlers and brand-changing—a crime that's plagued the territory for years. As a second murder points suspicion toward an unlikely culprit, Tom must separate truth from deception to expose the real mastermind behind the killings. A fast-paced tale of rustling, betrayal, and frontier justice from the pages of Tom Mix Western.