Tom Mix Western #31

Gunslinger Hawkes poses as a hired hand to infiltrate Tom Mix's ranch, plotting with a gang of rustlers to kill the famous trouble-shooter and steal his cattle. When his midnight attack fails to finish Mix off, Hawkes must scramble to cover his tracks while the determined cattleman pursues the rustlers into the hills—setting up a deadly game where Mix hunts those who hunt him.

Tumbleweed Jr. thinks he's clever when he finds an old piece of chalk and uses it to trick his friends into chopping wood for him—promising it as a prize. But when his scheme backfires and the gang retaliates by vandalizing the village tepees and framing him, Tumbleweed learns a hard lesson about the real cost of laziness and deception. It's a rollicking tale of frontier comeuppance that proves sometimes the work you're trying to avoid is easier than the trouble you're making for yourself.

When a man is beaten to death near Dobie and his nephew Tory stands to inherit everything, Tom Mix finds himself racing against time through the treacherous caverns to save an old man from a murderer's trap. With only a bloody shirt as evidence and a note scrawled in desperation, Tom must navigate the deadly terrain before his quarry can silence the one witness who knows the truth.

When Tom Mix investigates the theft of gold shipments at Otis Fromm's warehouse, all the evidence seems to point to Hal Benton, the stage driver who delivered the cargo—but Tom's instincts tell him something doesn't add up. As he pursues Benton with a posse, Tom begins to suspect that the real culprits are working to frame the innocent man and silence him permanently. With the truth hanging in the balance, Tom must uncover who's really behind the robberies before justice goes terribly wrong.

Simpkins tries to tag along to the movies with Buck, but gets the cold shoulder—until Buck reluctantly relents on one condition. A quick-witted tale of persistence and compromise set in the Old West, where even a talker knows when to keep quiet.

Flagg the Fisherman sets out for a day on the water and lands what he claims is an impressive catch—though the specifics of his fishing tale remain to be seen in this lighthearted western yarn.

When Tom Mix investigates an explosion at the Bar Fifty Ranch, he spots a fleeing bandit—but the criminal uses dynamite as a weapon to force Tom into letting him escape. Now Tom must track down the Dynamite Kid before he strikes again, unaware that the outlaw has a cunning plan to dig up his buried loot by manipulating the town's upcoming sheriff election.