When Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, learned of a plot to organize the Southern States in an attempt to secede from the Union, she faced a problem. During the War Between the States, she had rendered loyal service to Dixie. At its end, she had taken the oath of allegiance to the Union and was now a trusted member of the U.S. Secret Service. Any clash of loyalties was averted when the Frenchman, a leader of the Brotherhood for Southron Freedom, caused the deaths of two of Belle's friends. The Rebel Spy swore that she would avenge them...Even if it had to smash the Brotherhood to do it!

To protect the life of a visiting European Crown Prince from threatened assassination, the Governor of Texas could have called up the Texas Rangers, or even the United States Army. Instead, Stanton Howard obtained the services of Ole Devil Hardin’s floating outfit. Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco had handled many dangerous people in their time, but they’d never met the like of the one employed by this band of conspirators to kill the Crown Prince. Acknowledged as Europe’s premier assassin, Beguinage came and went unnoticed by all except the victims. And had never failed in an assignment. The only way Dusty saw of saving the Prince was to use himself as bait for a trap—knowing that when it was sprung, either Beguinage or he would be dead...

Assigned to protect Crown Prince Rudolph of Bosgravinia while he was on a hunting expedition in Texas, Ole Devil Hardin's Floating Outfit knew that their task would be anything but easy. For one thing, they were fighting two separate groups of assassins, both made up of Rudolph's countrymen. But Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco considered that the most serious threat had been removed. Posing as a hired killer, the small Texan had brought Beguinage, Europe's top assassin, into the open and killed him ... or so they thought. Then things started to happen which made the Floating Outfit change their ideas from Beguinage being dead to the almost unthinkable "Beguinage is very much alive!"

Brent Mallick and his hired Double K gunmen had it all made. Mallick wanted all the land around Barlock, which meant buying out all the small ranchers. This was no problem, for if the ranchers were at first reluctant to sell, they soon changed their minds when they saw what would happen to them and their families if they refused.Yes, everything was going Mallick's way. It was, that is, until the day his gunmen arrived at the Lasalle ranch, intending to try out their own brand of persuasion, and found three men waiting for them.The Ysabel Kid was one of the men. Mark Counter was another. The third man was small and insignificant looking . . . His name was Dusty Fog!

There were some strange goings-on in Roberts County, New Mexico, where it bordered the brooding Wapiti Hills. Men had been disappearing without trace and all attempts to find them had failed.When Mark Counter disappeared, the Rio Hondo gun wizard, Dusty Fog, and the Ysabel Kid went looking for him. Mark was their friend and they aimed to find him, even if it meant taking on the whole of Roberts County—it would be just too bad for anyone who tried to stand in their way.

THE FINAL FLOATING OUTFIT BOOK. Belle Starr, lady outlaw, had been murdered, cut down from behind by a double charge of buckshot. Nobody knew who had killed her.But Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid swore they would bring in the murderer.Getting whoever killed Belle meant a lot to the three Texans.It meant more than ever to Mark, for he had planned to ask the girl to be his wife.

It seems when a lady's called "Calamity," chaos follows wherever she goes — even to the mostly peaceful railroad town of Mulrooney, Kansas. Martha Jane Canary's always been free as the prairie wind, tied to no place or person, so she never expected to inherit a hardscrabble ranch that other folks have been working. She might have even ignored the legal summons to claim her property–if someone hadn't tried to kill her first.Now, whether she wants the spread or not, Jane's going to fight for what's hers — taking on bushwackers, crooked lawyers — and a woman with a cold and greedy heart, and a plan to steal Jane's land with bullets and brutality. But Calamity's got an ally — a baby-faced Texas gun called the Ysabel Kid — not to mention stony courage, a strong and sure whip hand — and a mule-stubborn willingness to lay down her life for what's right.

The first book in a trilogy this sets the scene. When he inherited an Arizona ranch from an uncle he barely knew, Stone Hart packed off with a rambunctious support of Texans Dusty, Mark and Lon and a thundering herd of longhorns. But in the wilds of Arizona, some of Hart's new neighbors were hell-bent on claiming the ranch as their own.

To the Kiowas a white buffalo was a sign of plenty. Only a name-warrior must kill it and even then a medicine-man had to perform the sacred rites over the hide within a prescribed time or all benefits would be lost. The fact that Luke Crammer had slaughtered a white buffalo could easily launch a full-scale war between the Kiowas and the white men of North Texas.Similar trouble could come too from the Sioux, for their war-chief, Grey Bear, had been kidnapped by a bunch of hardcases and branded a thief. Grey Bear could not accept such shame and do nothing. Only one person could possibly stave off the trouble—the Ysabel Kid, the man the Pehnane Comanches called Cuchilo ... The Knife.

They made an ill-assorted crowd. The pious citizens of Baptist's Hollow. Major Ellwood, mayor and town marshal. Doc Thornett's medicine show, with Madame Fiona, woman bare-knuckle boxer, her daughters, and Elwin, the boy who wanted to be a juggler. Sergeant Magoon, the wild Irish soldier who had brought his men. Chet Bronson and Harris, going to the Stockade for life. Big Em, the female fist-fighting champion of Fort Owen. The miners driven from the hills by Lobo Colorado's Apache warriors.There were four Texans also. Three were tall, eye-catching men. Yet when the chips were down and a leader was needed they called on the fourth Texan—a small insignificant, soft talking man. His name was Dusty Fog.

Ole Devil Hardin's O.D. Connected Ranch was watched over by an elite crew of top hands called the Floating Outfit. Most of them were veterans of the War Between the States. They were skilled with rifle, revolver and knife. Folks in West Texas knew better than to trifle with them. And the biggest man among them was the smallest, a range-toughened ex-Rebel cavalry officer called Dusty Fog.

Things were looking bad for Red Blaze. First somebody put an arrow into his partner; then somebody put a bullet into a friendly Apache girl from the reservation. Somebody wanted the Apaches on the warpath, and to do it they had to get Red out of the way. But Red had a friend, a certain small Texan with a tall reputation. Name: Dusty Fog.

They called him Chopper, because of the way he destroyed his victims. But then he made a mistake. He gunned down two of the elite Company 'Z', then not only the boys of 'Z' were after him, but also Rapido Clint. The hunt spread to England, the trail of Mr. J. G. Reeder, and Clint and Reeder found they had an identical problem – to discover the identity of Chopper ... then destroy him!

To Gavin Gartree's bunch of hardcases, "work" was a cussword, "innocent" was a come-on, and a young pilgrim girl was an invitation to a molestation. But nothing was quite as it seemed. For a start, the young pilgrim girl in question was accompanied by a small and seemingly inconsequential Texan by the name of Dusty Fog. But that was the thing about Dusty Fog. Though small in stature, he was a giant when it came to fighting, and he always made his first shot the last shot as well.

At last! The final, unfinished action-adventure novel by bestselling author J. T. Edson can be enjoyed by his legions of fans worldwide! Presented as an incomplete manuscript with the first nine chapters and author notes. Transported from Earth to the planet Zillikian, Beryl Snowhill, Charlotte Topper and Jill Jervis will have to prover themselves as being considered Amazons of Zillikian.

Hell's Doorway ... That was Triblet—the meanest kind of trail-end town, where the corrupt and vicious men grew fat on the sweat and grit of a lot of honest people. At least, that's how it was till the Floating Outfit started cleaning things up. They were the toughest bunch of town tamers the West ever knew, led bu a small Texan named Dusty Fog—a pint-sized powder keg who wouldn't stop till there wasn't an argument left standing.

Out in Wyoming it took a brave man –or a fool – to tangle with a cougar. In a land where men faced death readily, where lead flew with deadly accuracy, the speed and power of the cougar, or mountain lion, were to be respected and feared.If a cougar or an old grizzly was prowling around, there was only one thing to do – send for Scobie Dale, the man with the specialized knowledge and equipment which most ranchers lacked, the man they called the hound dog man.

A big-city detective had a lot to learn in Texas. Even a tough one like Ed Ballinger. He'd tracked the Big Man to Jack City, where he owned the local law and was surrounded but hired guns. Ballinger was in trouble. The mobster from Chicago was riding high—until Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit rode into his life. Then his trouble really began...

"Buffalo are coming!"This was the message that the Comanche medicine man spread through the tribes of the Plains Indians. And when they arrived it would be a sign for every brave, no matter what his nation, to rise and drive the hated white eyes from the land.Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, Waco and the Ysabel Kid had been sent to persuade the Kweharehnuh to join the other Comanche bands on the reservation. But if the medicine man's prediction came true, then not only would their mission fail, but blood—both red and white—would be shed throughout the west ...

Folk claimed that if you cut one member of the notorious Cousins family, they would all bleed—and come looking for revenge. Marshal Tune Collier had shot Brock Cousins in a bank raid, and now he was waiting for the evil, cold-blooded Cousin clan to come gunning for him.What made it worse was that he had been wounded in the bank battle and had no hope of fending off the outlaws.But Marshal Collier had his loyal kin too.When Mark Counter heard of Tune's desperate plight, he decided to ride in and help. He knew he was going to face a vicious and dangerous gang, and when he heard that Calamity Jane was also in town, he realized that things were going to be even more complicated than expected.

On vacation in Mexico, Woman Deputy Alice Fayde and her partner Deputy Sheriff Bradford Counter hoped for some R&R. Giving a lift to an English girl, they found themselves involved with hired killers and entangled in the world of international espionage. And so they began a desperate run for the border. The deputies would need all their gun-skill, courage and intelligence if they hoped to reach Rockabye County alive.

Spanish Grant County is open for the taking, and the East Coast sharpies are moving in. But the one man standing in the way is rancher Stone Hart, who has friends by the name of Fog, Counter and Ysabel. And when the members of General "Ole Devil" Hardin's floating outfit are joined in Arizona by a lady named Calamity, the land grabbers, bushwackers, and bank robbers have a wildcat by the tail. Now the range is running with blood—and the wildcat is fighting back!

In every democracy the laws for the protection of the innocent allows loopholes through which the guilty can slip...The Governor of Texas decided that only unconventional methods could cope with the malefactors who slipped through the meshes of the law and so was formed a select group of Texas Rangers. Picked for their courage, honesty and devotion to justice, they were known as Company Z...With one exception, every man in Company Z had been a member of the Texas Rangers for several years. Alvin Fog was that man. He had inherited the muscles, skill at gun-handling and bare-handed fighting of his grandfather, the legendary Rio Hondo gun wizard, Dusty Fog. But his fellows in Company Z were not convinced he had the skill needed for their unconventional duties. It was up to him to prove he was worthy of his place in Company Z. Only he alone could truly become ... Alvin Fog, Texas Ranger!

In 1873 Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada became President of Mexico. In the same year the Colt factory at Hartford, Connecticut, produced a new revolver. They called it the Model P and gave no thought to a better name. It became the best and most reliable fighting handgun of its age, rugged, powerful and hard hitting. Dusty Fog bought a matched brace of the new Colts ... Down in Mexico there was trouble, and an old friend of the Ysabel Kid disappeared, believed murdered by the revolutionaries. That brought Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco into Mexico. When they returned, those new Colt guns bore a name—men called them the Peacemakers....

The forces of greed aren’t going to let go of Spanish Grant County without a final fight, and an army of hired gunslingers take on a bantam-fighter-turned-sheriff named Fog, the fists of a blond giant Mark Counter, the honed steel of a silent killer, the Ysabel Kid. And what the outlaws can’t win with Colts and Winchesters they’ll try another way earning the ire of a shootist named Calamity Jane!

The Palo Duro was bad country: dry as the rattlesnakes that owned it, mean as the Comanches who ruled it, wild as the outlaw town of Hell that was its capital. Dusty Fog had ridden in and shot his way back out again. But had left behind men and women at the mercy of the Kweharehnuh Comanches. Bad men, who had committed almost every kind of crime, and women who were not much better, it is true. That did not stop Dusty feeling concerned for their safety. So the Rio Hondo gun wizard decided that he must go back to Hell. Despite all the dangers which doing so entailed, the Ysabel Kid and Waco insisted upon accompanying him. The mysterious man called Break O'Day rode with them—but he intended to be the only one to come out of Hell alive.

Outlaw Rapido Clint strode into the Texas "chicken ranch" with women on his mind and the Texas Rangers on his trail. Within hours he and his half-breed partner Comanche Blood would be hightailing it across the border, leaving behind a Ranger with a bullet in his chest, and heading for a hot time down Mexico way. Holed up at a posh hacienda run by an American crime czar, they would be ready for a standoff with the Rangers...and it had to end in an orgy of bullets and blood.

Having thwarted one scheme to invade Canada from the USA, Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, and the Remittance Kid were hunting the leaders of the plot, who had escaped and were plotting another attempt. To help them, they called upon a young lady called Miss Martha Jane Canary - better known as Calamity Jane... Belle, Calamity and the Kid made a good team, but they knew they would need all their fighting skills when the showdown came. For they faced leLoup-Garou and the Jan-Dark, the legendary warrior maid with the warlance who, it had long been promised, would come to rally all the Indian nations and drive the white man from Canada.

Everyone in Tennyson wanted their town to look really good ... Reconstruction was ending and a new Governor was taking over ... respectability and affluence were the order of the day!Then, to Tennyson's alarm, they learned the Hide and Horn Saloon had changed hands. There was nothing wrong with the new owner, a hard shooting, hard punching lady called Madame Bulldog who looked as though she could run the whole show with one hand. The trouble came with the family of the previous owner - they wanted the saloon back - anyway they could get it ...And suddenly, at the worst possible time, the folk of Tennyson found they had a war on their hands ... and the prize was THE HIDE AND HORN SALOON...

They didn’t have any law in Quiet Town—except that of the gun. Three good men had the badge of Sheriff and died wearing it.The good citizens felt that their town needed a real lawman, someone who would play the killers and hard cases at their own game. They knew of one man who could do the job. His name was Dusty Fog.

In this game, the winning hand is the one that holds the gun!A cardsharp with a conscience, Frank Derringer came to the crooked town of Tribune, Kansas, looking to even a score or two. But after cheating the cheaters who'd robbed a good friend blind in a fixed game, Frank's escape didn't go exactly as planned – especially after he hooked up with a sharp-shooting lady named Martha Jane Canary, better known as "Calamity." True to her moniker, Calamity Jane was soon leading Frank into a hail of gunfire that surrounded a dead man's dying words and a fortune in stolen gems. Now, stripped of the one edge they've both always had – the advantage of working alone – Frank and Jane are riding hell for leather into a deadly free-for-all and a killer's ingenious trap. And it'll take a sharp eye, a quick gun, and a strong dose of gambler's luck to keep them alive long enough to rake in the pot!

J T Edson has created more dynamic Western gals than any other writer. Into a world of rough, tough, gun-slinging heroes, his high-stepping ladies hold their own with the best of the cowboy breed, out-riding, out-shooting, out-wrestling the toughest men in the West. The lady outlaw, Belle Starr; Woman Deputy Alice Fayde of Rockabye County; Rita Yarborough of Company Z, Texas Rangers; Annie Singing Bear, known as 'Is-A-Man' to the Comanche Indians; Dawn, Drummond-Clayton of Amabagasli, all demonstrate that J.T.'s ladies: beautiful and mostly virtuous, depend solely on themselves when danger threatens. 

It spelled trouble—in a big way.Dusty Fog knew this when he agreed to become marshal of Mulrooney, Kansas—knew it and accepted it because he had good men at his back. Yet it seemed that not even the combined talents of Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid, Waco and gambler Frank Derringer could handle the feud between Freddie Woods and her chief rival in the saloon business, Buffalo Kate.The feud came to a rip-roaring, brawling head one day when Buffalo Kate faced Freddie and warned, "This town isn't big enough for the both of us. One of us has to go!"

Waco was a product of the times. Left an orphan in a Waco Indian attack on a wagon train, he grew up among the large family of an impoverished rancher. Although treated as one of the family, some urge set him drifting at the age of thirteen. Even then he carried a gun, a battered but operational old Navy Colt. Four years later he wore a brace of Army Colts and bore a log-sized chip on his shoulder. His truculence might have sent him on the trail of Wes Hardin, Bad Bill Longley or other fast-handed Tejano boys running from the law after a killing too many.Then fate stepped in. Waco met Dusty Fog, the fastest of them all.

When the gunplay started the five Texans were in there, fighting to a man. And when the gunsmoke cleared, they were the ones still on their feet, If you were lucky enough to be their friend you were a friend for life. If, though, you made yourself their enemy, you might as well start digging your own grave. Because if you called down one of them, you called down all five. That was the way things were with the legendary Floating Outfit.

At first most people, even the majority of his victims, regarded the Owlhoot as something of a joke. Armed with a long-barreled Colt Peacemaker, masked by a bandana and dressed like an old West cowhand, he robbed couples necking in cars on lonely roads. Woman Deputy Alice Fayde and her partner, modern-day gun wizard Deputy Bradford Counter, did not think he was a joke. Especially as they stood looking at the two bodies sprawled by the Pontiac convertible. They had been shot at close range by the .45 caliber, black powder-powered bullets from the Owlhoot's revolver. The deputies' fears had been realized. No longer was the Owlhoot a joke. Now he was a killer who had to be located and arrested before he used the Colt again.

A mercenary General in Mexico offered to use his army for the Confederate cause. Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, received orders to deliver $15,000.00 as payment for his services. Helping her rode two tough Texans, the Ysabel Kid and his father. Matched against them were the United States Secret Service, determined to prevent the delivery; the French, who wanted the gold for Maximilian; Mexican supporters of Juarez who saw it as a way of freeing their country from foreign domination; and, when word of it leaked out, the worst rabble of murderous thieves the bloody border between Texas and Mexico ever saw.

When the members of the Rockabye County Sheriff's Office spoke of a bad hombre, they usually meant an exceptionally large, tough, vicious and ruthless criminal with a temper as mean as a stick-teased rattlesnake's.The small, slender, meek-looking Oscar Burgenhof was so insignificant in appearance that he might be passed unnoticed on a deserted street. Yet his weird and erotic tastes in entertainment had driven him to a life of crime. By the time Burgenhof was brought to justice, he had killed five people and involved Woman Deputy Alice Fayde in the tightest, most bizarre and perilous situation of her life. No matter how he might look, Oscar Burgenhof was a bad hombre.

To protect the life of a visiting European Crown Prince from threatened assassination, the Governor of Texas could have called up the Texas Rangers, or even the United States Army. Instead, Stanton Howard obtained the services of Ole Devil Hardin's floating outfit. Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco had handled many dangerous people in their time, but they'd never met the like of the one employed by this band of conspirators to kill the Crown Prince. Acknowledged as Europe's premier assassin, Beguinage came and went unnoticed by all except the victims. And had never failed in an assignment. The only way Dusty saw of saving the Prince was to use himself as bait for a trap—knowing that when it was sprung, either Beguinage or he would be dead...

Arizona Territory: loaded with silver, gold, and copper—and running with blood. Now some hard-riding Texans are making a stand, backed up by the smoking guns of a bantam-fighter-turned-sheriff named Fog, the fists of a blond giant named Counter, and the honed steel of a silent killer, the Ysabel Kid. But the forces of greed aren't going to let go of Spanish Grant County without a final fight, and an army of hired gunslingers has been sent to take on the Texans. And what the outlaws can't win with Colts and Winchesters they'll try another way—by taking some women hostages, and earning the ire of a shootist named Calamity Jane!

They met in a New Orleans alleyway in the dark days following the Civil War. His name was Philippe St Andre—a peace officer—and he was in the process of being beaten up by a gang of hardcases. Her name was Martha Jane Canary, and with a few unladylike tricks she dispersed the thugs with an ease that belied her boyish appearance.That meeting proved providential for the good citizens of New Orleans and fatal for the maniacal killer who had been terrorizing the streets of the city. Already seven girls had fallen into the clutches of the notorious "Strangler". What the police needed was a girl with courage enough to act as bait for the killer, and who better, thought St Andre, than the slim girl who had saved his life and who was known throughout the West as Calamity Jane.

That there should be an attempt to kill him did not surprise Mr. J. G. Reeder. In the course of his career, the mild and gentle detective had incurred the enmity of many dangerous and desperate criminals, and one of who might be seeking revenge. What puzzled Mr. Reeder was the identity of the man behind the attempt.There was only one man capable of inspiring such fear among the British underworld that it caused the blanket of silence facing Mr. Reeder. But old Mad John Flack was dead! Or was he?Before Mr Reeder could solve the mystery, he was grateful for the support of Alvin Fog, grandson of the legendary Rio Hondo gun wizard, Dusty Fog. The youngest man ever to attain the rank of captain in the Texas Rangers, said to be the most deadly combat pistol shot of his generation, Alvin Fog needed all his skill to survive when he and Mr. Reeder stumbled on the solution!

A short-story collection featuring the men sworn to serve Ole Devil Hardin, the crippled Texas rancher. The fastest guns and the fiercest fighters in the Southwest, they were known as Ole Devil's Hands and Feet.Small Man From Polveroso City, Texas features Dusty on an errand for Ole Devil. Two teams of con-artists targets the small Texan but there was one thing shorter than Dusty Fog—the life of any man fool enough to throw down on him!The Invisible Winchester, Chief Ten Bears comes to sign a peace treaty and nearly gets assassinated. Waco and Doc Leroy must use their respective skills to save Ten Bears and prevent a war in a display of teamwork that will later serve them well as Arizona Rangers (told in the Waco Series).Responsibility to Kinfolks, Mark Counter once again comes to the aid of his black sheep cousin, Trudeau Front de Boeuf, who has been kidnapped. Red Blaze is along for the ride, thinking that any kin of Marks must be all right. Mark...

The pattern was always the same when "the Bad Bunch" made their raids. They chose their time when there was a county fair, or some such diversion, to take folks minds off the protection of their property. Then they'd start a fire in another part of town, so that all the local lawmen and officials would have their hands full with that. Then they'd move in on their chosen target.To catch them seemed easy enough for Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid. All they had to do was wait for a county fair, watch out for a fire, and then make sure they were at the bank in time to stop the planned robbery.But even the floating outfit found the Bad Bunch a mite trickier than expected!

Few men were able to match Mark Counter's Herculean strength. And then Tiny Crumble came along...Yet, despite his great size and awesomely powerful muscles, Tiny appeared to be of a trusting and gentle nature—so gentle in fact that the boys of the Floating Outfit had misgivings about allowing him to be alone in the trail end railroad town of Mulrooney. Then a robbery took place—one that could only have been committed by a man of exceptional strength.As Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, and the Ysabel Kid looked down at the shattered skull of the victim of the crime, they began to wonder if the 'Gentle Giant' was really as gentle as he seemed...

Nobody noticed the little Texan till the trouble began...It was a typical country-house party, though perhaps a touch more decorous than most - perhaps even a tiny bit dull. Then suddenly all hell broke loose. The host was found murdered and the house was bristling with hard men whose methods of extracting information were anything but polite.But nobody bothered about Rapido. And Rapido kept pretty much to himself. In fact the slow-moving, slow-talking Texan seemed remarkably ill-named. That is until danger threatened, and the quiet man, transformed into a deadly fighting machine, treated the English to a showdown worthy of Gunfight at the OK Corral.

Elmo Thackeray died the richest man in Texas, leaving his vast fortune to be divided between his relatives and friends. Ole Devil Hardin was asked to gather together the beneficiaries of the will and deliver them to the Thackeray family house. Ole Devil gave the order for his famous Floating Outfit to ride.Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco thought their troubles would be over when they delivered the legatees to the old house. They were wrong. Under the terms of the will, the last legatee alive inherited the entire fortune — and it looked as if one of them intended to be the survivor who claimed it all.

In the days of the open range, a cowhand's most vital possession was his horse. When a cowhand left a spread with no mount of his own, the rancher would usually allow him to borrow one from the remuda. But sometimes, if they parted on bad terms, this loan would not be made...There was no greater disgrace for a cowhand than to be set a-foot. It meant he was untrustworthy, and once the news got around, he would find it almost impossible to get a job. So when a cowhand was set a-foot, there was usually trouble ... and gunplay.Dusty Fog knew this, but he still set a-foot the man he blamed for the loss of an OC Connected trail herd and the injuries to some of his crew. He knew too that the cowhand he was disgracing was real fast with a gun—and knew that gun might be turned against him.The cowhand's only name was Waco ...

When Miss Olga Chernyshevsky was shown how easy it was to make diamonds she demanded that she too should attempt the experiment—and accidently produced emeralds. The mistake meant she had to run for her life, straight into a poker game which resulted in the fight of a lifetime with the girlfriend of the notorious Arnaud 'le Loup Garou' Chavallier. And while Olga was jumping from one knife-edge predicament to another, Ole Devil Hardin's floating outfit were trying to keep the peace in Mulrooney—against heavy odds.

Captain Dusty Fog and the Ysabel Kid had heard some shaggy tales before, but this one took the prize. Some fancy Easterners were determined to save the noble buffalo from the Indians. To do it they wanted Dusty and his Texans to make a trail drive to a safe range--a trail drive of bison.The only trouble was, Dusty and his comrades hadn't heard the half of it. The Easterners had a secret scheme up their sleeve, and it didn't have anything to do with saving buffalo. Now the Texans were heading off into a storm of dust, trouble, and blood that would begin with an ambush and end up in a town called Hell. And before it was over, the Texans would do the one thing they were sure would fix the situation: pick up their guns and fight!

The citizens of Moondog, Texas, stood staring at the small, blond, insignificant cowhand—only he seemed to be the biggest man present, towering over his two companions, and neither of them lacked size. Cold fury worked on Dusty Fog's face as he pointed to the signboard announcing the name of the town."My brother came here because you begged for help," he told them. "Danny put his life on the line and you hadn't the guts to back him. So he died. The name of this town's all wrong and I aim to see it put right. You!" His finger stabbed at the Blue Bull Saloon's bartender. "Take your paint brush and cover over 'Moondog' on that sign. Put 'Yellowdog' in its place. Yellowdog, hombre. That's what your town is—it and everybody in it." Slowly, his head hanging in shame, the bartender obeyed; for he and every man in the crowd knew that Dusty spoke the bitter truth.

Their fame spread like wildfire through the West—a band of Texans who rode and fought together like brothers in the name of justice.There was Mark Counter, the soft-spoken young giant whose dandy appearance belied a strength few men could match. Red Blaze, the young hothead, who when the chips were down was as cool and deadly as any other. The Ysabel Kid, part Comanche, part French Creole, and all fighting man. Waco, the orphan boy, completely fearless and bent on proving himself in the eyes of his friends. And finally the small, insignificant-looking man who was their undisputed leader ... Dusty Fog, the Rio Hondo gun-wizard, the fastest draw in Texas.Those who had crossed them and lived to tell the tale were few. One thing was certain—they would never again underestimate a man who rode with the Floating Outfit.

Grattan, Texas is a bad place to get an education—and a worse place to be a teacher. One by one, the school masters and marms were given a choice: Take a permanent recess...or a bullet in the brain. In no time at all, the schoolhouse was empty. But now there's a new instructor in town. He's packing a six-shooter in his primer. He plans to teach a deadly lesson in revenge. And his name is Dusty Fog...

The Brotherhood for Southron Freedom's message had gone out through the ex-Confederate States.Give money to buy arms!Make ready for the day of reckoning with the Yankees!THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!In Texas, the unscrupulous leaders of the Brotherhood had gathered a band of desperate, dangerous men and armed them with repeating rifles. Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, now working for the U.S. Secret Service, was on their trail. As she saw evidence of their growing strength and power, she knew that she would need help to defeat them.So she sent a message to her superiors, telling all she had learned and offering a solution to the menace.She said, 'Send me three regiments of Cavalry... or Dusty Fog!'

Captain Dusty Fog and the Ysabel Kid had heard some shaggy tales before, but this one took the prize. Some fancy Easterners were determined to save the noble buffalo from the Indians. To do it they wanted Dusty and his Texans to make a trail drive to a safe range--a trail drive of bison.The only trouble was, Dusty and his comrades hadn't heard the half of it. The Easterners had a secret scheme up their sleeve, and it didn't have anything to do with saving buffalo. Now the Texans were heading off into a storm of dust, trouble, and blood that would begin with an ambush and end up in a town called Hell. And before it was over, the Texans would do the one thing they were sure would fix the situation: pick up their guns and fight!

After their first nine months on the recently opened Comanche range, the ranch-owners banded together to organize a great round-up. John Chisum, the Cattle King, planned to gain control by making sure that one of his men was picked as the roundup captain. But the job went to a passing stranger. Removing him should not have been any great problem to Chisum, for his men were of the killer breed, mean gunmen to the core. However, there was one small detail, a fly in the ointment to Chisum's success. The name of the passing stranger was Dusty Fog.

Somebody had a smart idea to end the Civil War. Flood the Southern States with counterfeit money and destroy their already weakened economy. Unfortunately one of the first consignments of bad money fell into the hands of a man who understood its meaning. General Ole Devil Hardin knew the forging plant must be destroyed; but it was situated in New Orleans, far inside Union-controlled territory. Only an expert could reach the plant; one who knew the South and how to survive in enemy country without being detected. The expert Ole Devil sent was a slim, beautiful woman. Although the Yankees knew her name, they could not place her face. So Belle Boyd went with Dusty Fog on the dangerous mission. That was her job, her way of life. They called her the Rebel Spy.

There was a lot of bad feeling left over from the War between the States, and not only between the North and South. Britain had allowed Confederate navy ships to use her ports, and after that, there wasn't much trust between them. Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, now with the U.S. secret service, had discovered an anarchist plot to attack Canada from U.S. soil, and she knew it had to be stopped. She soon found an ally in the Remittance Kid—but the Kid was working for the British...Could Belle really trust him...?

Until the coming of J.T. Edson, action-escapism adventure stories were dominated by male heroes. Heroines were expected to be beautiful and virtuous – but also meek, mild, and dependent upon the hero when danger threatened.J.T. changed all that.His heroines are beautiful and virtuous, but when danger threatens they depend on themselves ... Calamity Jane, Belle 'The Rebel Spy' Boyd, Betty Hardin, Dawn Drummond-Clayton, Woman Deputy Alice Fayde, and Amanda Tweedle, the baby-faced Blonde Genius, all demonstrate that ladies too have their place in action-packed adventure stories.And here they are, all in one volume ...J.T.'s LADIES

Mark Counter, blond giant of Ole Devil Hardin's floating outfit, was famous throughout the West for his strength, his skill as a cowhand, his prowess with the ladies, and an ability second only to Dusty Fog when it came to a lightning-fast draw.But Mark had kin who were almost as famous as he was.Here, in one volume, is the story of Mark Counter's famous kin—James Allenvale Gunn, better known as Bunduki, Chief Game Warden of an African Wildlife Reservation—Brad Counter, Deputy Sheriff in Rockabye County—Sergeant Ranse Smith, member of the elite but little-publicized Company Z of the Texas Rangers—and Jessica and Trudeau Front de Boeuf, two of the most likeable rogues who ever trod the Old West.

The downed cop was a rookie. The shooter was scum, part of a gang planning the biggest bank heist in Gusher City, Texas. The only witness was a fat man too scared to talk. Now, working under legendary sheriff Jack Tragg, Deputy Brad Counter—great-grandson of Mark Counter from Ole Devil Hardin's floating outfit—was as fast with a gun as his ancestor. His partner was Alice Fayde. Her weapons of choice were her looks and her brains. They had a plan for catching these lowlifes ... it involved two pretty call girls, an unwilling civilian, a slimy informant, and a trap that would catch a rat—or cost Alice and Counter their lives.

No man walks away. . . For years, there have been none better at the trade than buffalo-skin hunter Kerry Barran. But he's taken part in too much killing — of beast and man alike — and now he wants to lay down his gun for good. But the hunter's got powerful enemies in Otley Creek — and a "partner" who's unhappy about Kerry's refusal to finish one more job. If teaching the stubborn loner a lesson means breaking his bones, then so be it. In a town owned by his adversaries — with a ruthless gang of toughs on his tail — Kerry Barran's going to need all the help he can muster. And he's found it in the most unlikely quarters: with a dapper English dude and his sister...with a Texas gunslinger .. and with a whip-wielding hellcat who goes by the name "Calamity."