Tom Mix Western #37

When wealthy travelers begin arriving in frontier towns with suspicious wires announcing their presence and valuables, Tom Mix finds himself protecting them from repeated attacks by members of the old Dalt Gang—but something doesn't quite add up. As Tom investigates the peculiar belongings these rich men carry, he uncovers a pattern that hints at a larger scheme, one that may lead him straight to the gang's mysterious ringleader. Can Tom piece together the truth before the next robbery strikes?

Cowboy Cal gets a laugh from a circus tale that doesn't quite add up, but when his tall tale is challenged, the real humor lands in the punchline about who put whom up to what. This 1951 western romp delivers quick wit and absurdist ranch-hand banter without breaking a sweat.

When Tom Mix stumbles upon a warehouse fire in Coral City, he rescues a desperate young man named Rod Carter—only to learn that Rod believes himself cursed, with fire mysteriously breaking out wherever he works. Rod's troubles began a year ago when a partnership dispute with a man named Jed Hasty ended in tragedy, and now Rod is convinced he's a jinx doomed to bring disaster. Tom offers Rod work at his ranch to help him overcome the superstition, but when a mysterious trespasser strikes Tom down and Rod flees to Hightown in despair, Tom discovers kerosene and matches hidden in his stable—proof that someone has been deliberately setting the fires all along.

When Tom Mix discovers an empty rowboat drifting down the Apache River, his curiosity leads him to a mysterious attacker in a strange outfit—a man so peculiar he might hail from another world. Following clues from a rented boat and a gold watch, Tom retraces the river journey of a prospector named Ray Day, only to stumble upon an ingenious underwater hideout and a sinister plot unfolding in the darkness.

A troublemaking boy named Tumbleweed Jr. decides to get back at Tom Mix's horse for throwing him, starting with tickling the animal with feathers—but his pranks keep backfiring in increasingly chaotic ways. When Tumbleweed tries one final trick at the lake's edge, the clever horse turns the tables on him completely. It's a lesson in mischief met with comeuppance, western-style.

When Tom Mix discovers that his hotel roommate, Silent Pete, has snuck away in the dead of night to settle a ranch dispute in Centerville, he follows—only to find Pete murdered, with nothing but a mysterious button as a clue. Tom and the local sheriff recruit a rancher's bloodhounds to track the killer, but the cunning foreman Billious manipulates the dogs into pursuing Tom instead, forcing him to outwit both man and beast to prove his innocence and expose the real murderer.