Tom Mix Western #27

When Sheriff Mike Shaw and Tom Mix battle a gang of outlaws, they earn the town's gratitude—but a cunning stranger named Sleazy has other plans. By spreading whispers of corruption and framing both lawmen with stolen goods and rustled cattle, he turns the people of Dobie against the very men they once trusted, forcing Tom and Mike to face their greatest challenge: proving their honor when the whole town has turned its back on them.

Cowboy Cal's got a real problem on his hands—his eyes are acting up something fierce, and he can't figure out what's going on. When he decides to share his troubles with the boys, his explanation lands in a way he probably didn't expect. It's a quick, silly bit of frontier humor that proves sometimes the simplest mix-ups make for the best laughs.

Tom Mix faces a crisis when an overeager young man named Clyde Horn, desperate to become a hero, plants dynamite at the new Dobie Dam—based on a dangerous misunderstanding about contaminated water. With the fuse burning and time running out, Tom must race against the clock to prevent the destruction of the vital structure and the disaster that would follow.

When a terrible drought threatens the crops and livelihoods of his community, young Tumbleweed Jr. hatches an audacious plan: climb to the mountaintop, catch an eagle, and use it to push clouds together and force the rain to fall. What follows is a wild, determined journey filled with creative (if increasingly desperate) attempts to make his scheme work—complete with arrows, soaring through the sky, and one spectacular plunge back to earth. It's a humorous Western tale about one kid's earnest effort to save the day, even if his logic might need a little work.

Tom Mix suspects that a rare historical document isn't quite what it seems when Wortham Snarling offers to sell Jonathan Meeker an original draft of Washington's inaugural speech for fifty thousand dollars—and a mysterious attack on the document just before the sale raises Tom's suspicions even higher. When Tom arranges for a scholarly expert to examine the piece before the deal is finalized, things take an unexpected turn, and he finds himself tangled up in a web of forgery, impersonation, and deception that threatens to leave Meeker holding an expensive fake.

Saddlehead stumbles across a travel book about Egypt and gets stuck on a single word—"budget"—leading him to hilariously misunderstand what it means when he reads "See Egypt on a Budget." This humorous western tale from 1950 plays on the character's good-natured confusion as he tries to puzzle out the unfamiliar term.

A mysterious string of mail thefts plagues the town of Dobie, and when a bank robbery adds to the trouble, Tom Mix suspects the two crimes are connected. Following his instincts through a tangle of disguises and deception, Tom uncovers a clever scheme operating right under everyone's noses—and moves in to bring the culprits to justice.

When Bull Logan, a hardened criminal freshly released from jail, recognizes Warren Jefferson at his father's ranch, he seizes the chance for blackmail—threatening to expose the young man's secret prison past unless he hands over five hundred dollars. Tom Mix arrives to check on Warren's return to Dobie, but finds himself knocked cold and left to drown in the creek by the desperate Logan, setting up a race against time to save the ranch and stop a ruthless extortionist.