Tom Mix Western #25

When Tom Mix arrives in Gopher Gulch to sell cattle, a runaway wagon crashes into a wooden Indian outside a cigar store—and a quick-thinking repairman offers to fix it by morning. That same night, a mysterious thief strikes in town and vanishes without a trace, and Tom soon discovers the crime is connected to an ingenious scheme involving hollowed-out wooden Indians. Now Tom must ride to the hideout of the gang behind it all to expose their operation—but the outlaws have discovered his presence and are plotting his final move.

When Tom Mix hears a stranger's screams near Simon Kerr's ranch, he jumps in to save the man from the rancher's vicious police dogs—only to discover the victim was attempting to steal them. One of Kerr's own assistants soon proposes a partnership to pull off the heist, but Tom and Sheriff Mike Shaw decide to investigate which of Kerr's men is the culprit. What starts as a stakeout quickly spirals into something far more dangerous when the real criminals reveal their scheme and lure Tom into a deadly trap.

Tom Mix rides out to surprise an old rodeo friend, Jed Wilkens, only to find the retired rider's house occupied by rough strangers and Jed himself nowhere to be found. When Tom discovers one of the intruders wearing Jed's prized gold spurs, he sets out to uncover the truth behind a string of stage robberies and his friend's mysterious disappearance. A hidden cellar, a crooked mail dispatcher, and a carefully laid trap bring Tom face-to-face with the men who've been terrorizing the town.

Tom Mix gets schooled in show business when a vaudeville has-been brags about his former glory—only to reveal the embarrassing reason his stage career came to an abrupt end. It's a quick, wry punchline about pride and timing that'll land a smile on any Western fan who appreciates a good ribbing.

When Tumbleweed Jr. stumbles upon Eastern dudes jitterbugging at a nearby ranch, he can't resist trying the wild dance himself—and soon finds his tribe's medicine man convinced he's been possessed by an evil spirit. What begins as a mix-up over a simple dance craze spirals into chaos as the medicine man attempts increasingly desperate remedies to cure what he's sure is an affliction. Tumbleweed Jr. must convince his suspicious father and the skeptical medicine man that he's not crazy, just eager to share what he's learned.

When a new sheriff takes office in Point Lookout, Tom Mix warns him about a suspicious character in town—the notorious criminal Fatty Lee—who's been recruiting local hoodlums for some unknown scheme. Fatty's real game is far more devious than it appears: he's using forged confessions to frame his own gang members for robberies, then eliminating them to cover his tracks. Tom hatches a daring plan to go undercover and expose Fatty's deadly con before the criminal's next move.