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    141 Books (8 Series)
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    January 1968
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J.T. Edson was born in England in a small mining village. He grew up loving westerns, even going as far to rewrite cowboy films he saw in the theater. A teacher of his encouraged him to continue developing his writing. Before writing professionally, Edson served for 12 years in His Majesty's Armed Forces as a dog trainer. His first print piece was in a small military camp magazine in 1947. Shortly after, he purchased a typewriter and had written 10 westerns at the time of his discharge. He won second prize in the Western category of a literary contest. This led to the publication of 46 of his novels with Brown & Watson Ltd.

In the late 1960's, Edson joined Corgi Books which allowed him to expand from just writing westerns into science fiction as well. His novels are known for their attention to detail and historical accuracy. He has published 136 books with 27 million copies in print.

Full Series List in Order

A Bunduki Jungle Adventure

1 - Bunduki (Dec-2015)
2 - Bunduki and Dawn (Jan-2016)
3 - Sacrifice for the Quagga God (Feb-2016)
4 - Fearless Master of the Jungle (Mar-2016)
5 - The Amazons of Zillikian (Nov-2023)

Calamity Jane

1 - Cold Deck, Hot Lead (Mar-2004)
2 - The Cow Thieves // Running Irons (Oct-1985)
3 - The Road to Ratchet Creek // Calamity Spells Trouble (Dec-2005)
4 - White Stallion, Red Mare // Ranch War (Jun-1982)
5 - The Big Hunt ()
6 - The Hide and Horn Saloon (Feb-1984)

Dusty Fog's Civil War

1 - Mississippi Raiders (Apr-1996)
2 - Rebel Vengeance // You're in Command Now, Mr. Fog (Nov-1987)
3 - The Big Gun (Sep-1987)
4 - Under the Stars and Bars (May-1987)
5 - Fastest Gun in Texas (Dec-1990)
6 - Matter of Honor (Jun-1991)
7 - Kill Dusty Fog! (Jul-1987)
8 - Devil Gun (Jan-1987)
9 - The Colt and the Sabre (Nov-1986)

A Floating Outfit Story

1 - Ysabel Kid (1968)
2 - .44 Caliber Man (Jun-1980)
3 - A Horse Called Mogollon (May-1980)
4 - Goodnight's Dream (1969)
5 - From Hide and Horn (Aug-1982)
6 - Set Texas Back on Her Feet // Viridian's Trail (Feb-1986)
7 - Hide and Tallow Men (Jan-1991)
8 - Quiet Town (Sep-1980)
9 - Hooded Riders (Aug-1980)
10 - Trail Boss (Oct-1987)
11 - Wagons to Backsight (Dec-1980)
12 - Troubled Range (Aug-1981)
13 - Sidewinder (Apr-1979)
14 - Rangeland Hercules (Jan-1981)
15 - McGraw's Inheritance (Dec-1981)
16 - The Half-Breed (Sep-1988)
17 - White Indians (Sep-1985)
18 - Texas Kidnappers (Mar-1996)
19 - The Wildcats (Feb-1989)
20 - The Bad Bunch (Jun-1987)
21 - The Fast Gun (May-1981)
22 - Cuchilo (Jul-1981)
23 - A Town Called Yellowdog (Dec-1983)
24 - Trigger Fast (Nov-1983)
25 - The Making of a Lawman (Feb-1984)
26 - The Trouble Busters (Feb-1982)
27 - Decision for Dusty Fog (Sep-2018)
28 - Cards and Colts (May-1988)
29 - Code of Dusty Fog (Nov-1989)
30 - Gentle Giant (May-1986)
31 - Nighthawk (Jul-1990)
32 - Law of the Gun (Jun-1984)
33 - The Peacemakers (Aug-1984)
34 - To Arms! to Arms, in Dixie! (May-1993)
35 - Hell in the Palo Duro (Oct-1986)
36 - Go Back to Hell (Jun-1986)
37 - The South Will Rise Again (Mar-1980)
38 - The Quest for Bowie's Blade (Aug-1986)
39 - The Texas Assassin (Sep-1986)
40 - The Lone Star Killers // Texas Killers (Jan-1990)
41 - The Trigger Master (Jul-1986)
42 - The Rushers (Sep-1982)
43 - Buffalo Are Coming! (May-1994)
44 - The Fortune Hunters (Dec-1984)
45 - Rio Guns (Jul-1983)
46 - Gun Wizard (Sep-1983)
47 - The Texan (Feb-1985)
48 - Old Moccasins on the Trail (Jun-2020)
49 - Mark Counter's Kin (Nov-1994)
50 - The Rio Hondo Kid (Mar-1990)
51 - Ole Devil's Hands and Feet (Aug-1989)
52 - Waco's Debt (Jun-1978)
53 - Hard Riders (Mar-1986)
54 - The Floating Outfit (Sep-1984)
55 - Apache Rampage (Apr-1987)
56 - Rio Hondo War (Jul-1984)
57 - The Man from Texas (Nov-1984)
58 - Gunsmoke Thunder (Dec-1979)
59 - The Small Texan (Jun-1983)
60 - The Town Tamers (May-1985)
61 - Return to Backsight (Dec-1986)
62 - Wedge Goes to Arizona (Aug-1996)
63 - Arizona Range War (Oct-1996)
64 - Arizona Gun Law (Jan-1997)
65 - Terror Valley (Feb-1987)
66 - Guns in the Night (Jul-1985)

An Ole Devil Hardin Western

1 - Young Ole Devil (Jan-1988)
2 - Ole Devil and the Caplocks (Jan-1993)
3 - Ole Devil and the Mule Train (May-1992)
4 - Ole Devil at San Jacinto (Dec-1991)
5 - Get Urrea! // Texas Fury (Sep-1993)

Rockabye County

1 - The Sixteen-Dollar Shooter (Jun-2016)
2 - The Lawmen of Rockabye County (Nov-2016)
3 - The Sheriff of Rockabye County (Mar-2017)
4 - The Professional Killers (Jan-2003)
5 - The Quarter-Second Draw (Nov-2017)
6 - The Deputies (Jun-1991)
7 - Point of Contact (Jun-2018)
8 - Owlhoot (Aug-2018)
9 - Run for the Border (Dec-2018)
10 - Bad Hombre (Apr-2019)

Waco

1 - Waco's Badge (Jun-1989)
2 - Sagebrush Sleuth (Jul-1988)
3 - Arizona Ranger (Oct-1988)
4 - Waco Rides in (Apr-1990)
5 - The Drifter (Apr-1989)
6 - Doc Leroy, M.D. (Feb-1989)
7 - Hound Dog Man (May-1989)

A Waxahachie Smith Western

1 - No Finger on the Trigger (Aug-1990)
2 - Slip Gun (Oct-1990)
3 - Cure the Texas Fever (Jun-1996)

Book List in Order: 141 titles



  • His father was Sam Ysabel, a wild Irish Kentuckian who’d come to Texas in the early days and rode as scout to Jim Bowie. His mother was the daughter of Chief Longwalker and his French Creole squaw. That dangerous mixture of bloods produced a son wh...



  • The cities of the eastern States were hungry for beef. The problem was how to get it to them. Colonel Charles Goodnight had a plan that might work-if he had all the luck he needed. Things seemed to be going well, especially with the Floating Outfi...



  • GUNBLAZING BEAUTY The Texas border was the Confederacy's last hope of winning the war. And that made it the bloodiest battleground. Smuggling fifteen grand across to mercenaries would take every disguise the legendary Rebel Spy could master, every...



  • Rancher Sam Catlan and his two sons had been murdered—shot in the back by person or persons unknown.Sam Catlan had many friends—all of whom wanted to see his death avenged.But one young man in particular, to whom Sam had been like a fathe...



  • Fast and deadly as a snake which gave him his name, Sidewinder, the limping Comanche war chief, rampaged across Texas and threatened the peace between his people and the white men. Only a man with a tremendous knowledge of the Comanche could hope...



  • 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 ...



  • While the Brotherhood for Southern Freedom is determined to restore the south to its prewar glory, beautiful Belle Boyd works desperately undercover to prevent the group from starting a war and achieving its ends. Reprint....



  • When Colin Farquharson refused to sell the horse called Mogollon to Beatrice, Vicomtesse de Brioude, her husband swore to make him change his mind. To help him enforce his will upon the Scot, the Vicomte had a bunch of hired killers and a dozen caval...



  • Post-Civil War Texas is a hell of a rough place. And for a man wearing a kilt, it is even rougher. Colin Farquharson insists on retaining his native Scottish dress but to do so unarmed on the Texas frontier could get him killed. At least it provides ...






  • It all began when young Wes Hardin stepped up to a wrestling booth to try his strength against big, brawny Negro Sam. Within a few minutes a vicious gunfight had developed, and then Wes was on the run, branded a murderer-and without a single witne...



  • 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 ow...



  • The wagon train was heading for Backsight, the people looking to the West and a new home. Only Colonel Raines and his scout, Tom Blade, knew the danger that was stalking their every move. Then Tom Blade was dead, killed in an ambush, and Raines rode ...



  • When Churn Wycliff’s gang killed Sailor Sam Carol, Mark Counter of Ole Devil Hardin’s legendary Floating Outfit swore to bring them to justice. Taking their trail, the blond giant matched his enormous strength and lightning-fast draw against the ...



  • 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...



  • 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 sla...



  • With a Colt in her purse and a price on her head, Calamity Jane was fair game for every bounty hunter in the Territory--until she hooked up with the Floating Outfit's "best-dressed man," Mark Counter, the segundo of the Rio Hondo Gun Wizard himself. ...



  • The San Garcia was gila monster country, where the bears got fat on cattle if they got fat at all. McGraw couldn't figure it. Who would want his dry, rocky ranch badly enough to send a hired killer after him? McGraw needed help, and he knew where ...



  • 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 Cou...



  • Bloodlands . . . 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, s...






  • Other States were carved or born,Texas grew from hide and horn.There were problems to be solved before that became true. Where to sell the cattle which swarmed across the Texas ranges and how to get them to the market; also whether sufficient longhor...



  • Three men rode down the hill towards the body of the dead cavalry officer. On the right was a Texan—small and insignificant-looking. His name was Dusty Fog. On the left was Mark Counter, the dandy of the group, known and feared from Texas to Ne...



  • From the Mississippi River to the California shore, from the Rio Grande to the Canadian border, folks talked of Slaughter’s way. They did not mean a cattle trail, a road between two towns or a famous street in a city. They meant the way a medium-si...



  • 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...



  • Things looked bad for the KH. They were the only outfit in the Azul Rio basin that hadn’t joined Lanton’s cattle syndicate, and the ruthless boss of the S Star was bent on making things difficult for the rival spread. And Lanton wasn̵...



  • They were all at Tombstone to try and win the matched pair of gold-inlaid Colt Cavalry Peacemakers.Bat Masterson was there, in dude dress and with a fancy hat.Tom Horn was there, looking like a bold Apache war chief.Burt Alvord was there, the ex-depu...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 the...






  • 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...



  • They came from the East, well dressed men with greed in their hearts and money in their wallets. They thought nothing could stop them and their hired guns from taking over. But when they chose the Rio Hondo country they chose wrong. For that put them...



  • 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 f...



  • 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 be...



  • 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 cap...



  • 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 De...



  • When the gunplay started, five Texans were in the thick of it. 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 you were their enemy, it was the same. But y...



  • The towns at the end of the cattle trails north from Texas called for a special type of lawman. None of the peace officers available struck the Governor of Kansas as suitable to clean out the worst, most corrupt town of all. Yet it must be done befor...



  • 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.Get...



  • Morton Lewis was part Indian … which meant that the only way the land-grabbers could take his ranch from him was to kill him … and the killing had to seem to be legal …But Mort’s grandfather was a Comanche war chief, and if a Comanche brave s...






  • Man with a mission ... Danny Fog has a lot to live up to, being the younger brother of Dusty Fog, the legendary gun wizard from Rio Hondo. But Danny's still a lawman to be reckoned with -- and by breaking up the loathsome cow-thieving outfit that's ...



  • Colonel Charles Goodnight believed that cattle could be driven to the railroad in Kansas and sold for high prices to supply people in the East with beef.Not everybody approved of Goodnight’s idea. The owners of hide and tallow factories could b...



  • 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...



  • 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 bo...



  • Within the forbidding lands of the Palo Duro, the outlaw town called Hell supplies criminals, Commanches, and renegades with supplies and armaments. The Texas governor knows only one man who can tame Hell--Dusty Fog....



  • 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. Bu...



  • The task had seemed simple enough to the Ysabel Kid. All he had to do was ride into Mexico, find the man who had killed James Bowie at the Alamo and ask him to return Bowie’s legendary knife to its rightful owners. Nothing simpler ... or so the...




  • To be made welcome at the town called Hell in the Palo Duro, a man had to have a price on his head and be willing to share his loot with the mayor. If he did, he would be safe from the law. By arrangement with their chief, the Kweharehnuh Comanches p...



  • The Confederacy needs arms. And greedy European merchants are demanding gold for their goods. Though gold may be scarce in Dixie, there's no shortage of courage. Belle Boyd, beautiful rebel spy, joins Dusty Fog in a daring plot to finance a shipment ...






  • WANTED – DEAD$5000It might have been the normal poster put out by a law enforcement office that the Ysabel Kid held out, until the others read the name of the wanted man – Dusty Fog!“For five thousand dollars, every bounty hunter an...



  • It was the deadliest weapon in the West--a gun that could down a whole regiment, a whole Indian tribe of a whole town without even trying. They called it the Devil Gun.Captain Dusty Fog of the Texas Light Cavalry had orders to capture that gun from a...



  • 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, Du...



  • 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 mean...



  • A phony doctor, a murderer headed for the stockade for life, a bare-knuckled lady boxer and her two beautiful daughters ... an odd assortment was holed up in Baptist's Hollow taking refuge from Lobo Colorado's rampaging warriors. Four Texans were ...



  • Young Confederate captain Dusty Fog of the Texas Light Cavalry's Company "C" is confronted by a vicious band of Rebel misfits, a union scout who saves his life, and a fanatical Yankee determined to kill him...



  • 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...



  • Because of Dusty Fog's success in leading the Texas Light Cavalry, General Trumpeter, a Union officer, orders that he be killed or captured...



  • As the Big Gun (a Parrot 30-Pounder rifled cannon) of the Yankees wreaks havoc on the Confederate armies, only Dusty Fog can put the monstrous machine out of commission....



  • Since Thad Toon had put the ‘Indian sign’ on Ben Holland’s spread, no cowhand would ride with the Rocking H’s trail drive. Just to make sure, a rough-cut gang of killers had been hired to keep it that way. Then Dusty Fog and the Floating Outf...



  • A bullet from a Yankee sharpshooter's rifle blasts a Rebel captain out of hissaddle unleashing the most devastating weapon the Confederacy has--Dusty Fog.And it will cost the Yankees dearly . . ....



  • Jackson Baines Hardin, known as Ole Devil, is assigned by Major Sam Houston to deliver a shipment of rifles to the Texas patriots fighting for independence...



  • All hell has broken loose in Mulrooney, and it is up to Dusty Fog to restore order. But it will be tough--especially with a pair of slick swindlers trying to bilk the whole town, a high-stakes card game threatening to explode, and a pair of shapely s...



  • Arizona was wide open. The whole damn territory was easy-pickins for any two-bit cow-thief, back shooting gunslick, or blood-simple outlaw. The law belonged to the fastest gun. And justice was in the hands of fools and cowards. So when cattle baron B...



  • Like the man the mob was trying the lynch, the Ysabel Kid was half Comanche. He was a crack shot with a Colt Dragoon, a master of the border country art of cut-and-slash, and the fastest shot with a Winchester Yellow Boy repeater Texas had ever seen....



  • The man was tall, wide-shouldered, powerful-looking. His face was youthful, but his eyes were not.They seemed to reflect years of hard living and hard riding, years in which he had looked death in the face too often, but had always come out standing ...



  • 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 cla...



  • Doc Leroy was the best sawbones on the range--and a cowboy to boot. But those foolish enough to cross him quickly found that Doc Leroy was mighty handy with a gun, and he could cure all their ills with a lightning draw....



  • Six feet three and built like Hercules, Mark Counter was certainly the most handsome of all the Floating Outfit’s members. Independently wealthy, he dressed elaborately, using the fancy clothes to set off his handsome and virile features. But M...



  • When Waco moseys into Two Forks, Utah, he orders up more than the cowhand special. What he gets for his two bits is a double dose of fast-shooting trouble. Five of the meanest toughs to ever saddle a stool at the Twin Bridge Saloon are hell-bent on p...



  • 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.I...



  • Law beyond the limits ...

    In wide-open Arizona, outlaws run rampant, since the authority of the local marshal ends at his town's borders. A different breed of peace officer is needed, and rancher Bentram Mosehan has accepted the responsibili...



  • A half-pint Texan and a lead slinging medico were two of the men sworn to serve Ole Devil Hardin, the crippled rancher. They were the fastest and fiercest fighters in the Southwest, and anyone crossing them would be wise to watch his step....



  • Mark Counter must break up a vicious cat-fight between two of the nastiest ladies of the West, Martha "Calamity" Jane Canary, who feigns helplessness to dupe Counter, and Belle Starr, whose steps are dogged by a bunch of bounty hunters...



  • Dusty Fog is grateful when Raymond Sangster saves him from a potentially deadly ambush but is subsequently torn by the Western code of honor, as Sangster wants his help in building a railroad across a friend's land...



  • To Dusty Fog's eye, it seems like a killer's convention is set to convene in Corpus Christi in honor of the arrival of a European crown prince. And it's Dusty's job -- along with fast-draw artist Waco, a knife master called the Ysabel Kid, and other ...



  • The hired gunmen came to Mahon’s place to take him away and kill him. But instead of Mahon they found a black-dressed Texas boy with a fast gun, and left him for dead, taking his horse. They had made their first big mistake. In the town of Esco...



  • His only name was Waco ...A Texan who rode as an Arizona Ranger, being peace officer, detective and ready to handle any emergency.His duties led him to lock horns with a campaigning lady politician, to tangle with Curly Bill Brocious and his girlfrie...




  • When the Fuente brothers learned that Waxahachie Smith was investigating their criminal activities, they decided that drastic action was called for. As far as they were concerned, the best way to stop a Texas Ranger -- short of killing him -- was to ...



  • Folks said that Waxahachie Smith was finished when his enemies cut off both his trigger-fingers. But he came from a breed that did not accept defeat.So he rode the range, ready to sell his fighting skills to the highest bidder. Nor was he ever out of...



  • At fifteen he joined the Confederate Army. By eighteen he had become a legend. His name was Dusty Fog: a man with a magic hand that could draw, shoot and hit his mark in less than a second. Dusty killed quick. His opponents died slow...slow getting t...



  • The Pilar Hide and Tallow Company were in trouble -- their enormous profits looked like dropping if Colonel Charles Goodnight’s scheme of driving cattle across country came to fruition. In order to protect their interests the five partners came to ...



  • When it looks as though the brutal killer of Eloise Charmain might buy his way out of paying for his crime, using a crooked lawyer, a faked alibi, bribery, and murder, the justice riders of Company Z embark on a trail of vengeance...



  • After killing a Texas Ranger at a "chicken ranch," grizzled outlaw Rapido Clint and his partner Comanche Blood escape to a Mexican hacienda, where the law catches up with them and a bloody standoff with the Rangers ensues...



  • When someone kills his foster brother, Ysabel Kid--the son of a white man and the grandson of a Comanche chief--uses his Comanche skills and need for revenge to capture the killer before he crosses the border...



  • Deputy sheriffs Alice Fayde and Brad Counter looked at the body. It was that of a shapely, luciously-curved young woman. There were six bullet holes in the torso. And there was no face—only a hideously battered mass of blood and pulp. Sometimes...



  • As the Civil War rages on, Texas gunslinger Captain "Dusty" Fog defends a Yankee wrongly court-martialed for cowardice, during which he learns about a secret weapon that the Union army plans to use on his troops...



  • 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 l...



  • In 1835 the oppression of Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had driven the colonist in Texas to rebellion. Major Gneral Sam Houston, realizeing that his small force could only hoep to face the vast Mexican army when conditions were favourable ha...



  • Captain Jackson Baines Hardin had been given the task of ensuring the safe delivery of a five hundred caplock rifles, on which depended the success of the Texians’ struggle to liberate themselves from the tyrannical rule of the Mexican dictator, Pr...



  • An American shipload of Caplock rifles has been unloaded on the Texas coast. This new-fangled firepower could be vital to the Texians fighting for freedom from Mexico … if it ever reaches its destination. There’s only one man General Sam ...



  • Assigned to investigate mysterious consignments of priceless weapons for her new employer, the U.S. Government, former rebel spy Belle Boyd runs up against the secret Brotherhood for Southern Freedom, a sinister band of renegades...



  • On March 27, 1836, General José Urrea ordered the cold-blooded killing of almost four hundred Texian prisoners of war. When news of the massacre reached General Samuel Houston, commander of the newly formed Army of the Republic of Texas, he was ...



  • “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 whi...



  • The legacy of Mark Counter lives on as his grown children take charge of the old West, each in their own unique way, as Texas Ranger, game warden, sergeant, and risk taker, to create legends of their own. Original....



  • The Ysabel Kid was being followed as he rode the trail back to Rio Hondo Country. The three hombres behind him were robbing cowhands of their cattle-drive pay. And the Kid had been deputized to stop them. Riding out on his lonesome, he intended to br...



  • Belle Boyd came from a family of eight sisters and though he loved them deeply, her father had always wanted a son.  With her riding ability and her quick shot, Belle was the closest he would come.  On a fateful day, Belle would have to say goodb...



  • There's big trouble for Texas cattle ranchers.  A mysterious disease called "Texas Fever" seems to follow their herds to market.  Now their steers may be banned from Kansas and the railroad -- a measure that will spell ruin for them all.  The g...



  • Inheriting an Arizona ranch from a long-lost uncle, Stone Hart, accompanied by a crew of fellow Texans and Confederate veterans, sets out to claim his legacy, only to discover that some of his new neighbors are out to claim the land for their own. Or...



  • The second in a trilogy of Westerns set in the 1800s pits rancher Stone Hart against land grabbers and bank robbers in a fight for the range. By the author of Wedge Goes to Arizona. Original....



  • When Stone Hart's wealthy ranch becomes the target for greedy outlaws, his only chance of defending his stretch of Spanish Grant County lies in the a hard-hitting, fast-shooting Texan crew that includes the Ysabel Kid and Calamity Jane. Original....



  • Comanche warrior Annie Singing Bear must represent her entire tribe by using her extraordinary fighting skills and possibly her life to avenge a young maiden who was brutally raped and murdered. Reprint."...



  • Brad Counter, great grandson of Mark Counter from Ole Devil Hardon's outfit, carries on the family legacy as a deputy sheriff in the Lone Star State. He and his partner, Deputy Alice Fayde, are part of a team investigating the near-fatal shooting of ...



  • In the violent and lawless days following the Civil War many infamous outlaws cut a bloody swathe across the West...John Wesley Hardin, Bad Bill Longley, Sam Bass, Frank and Jesse James, the Daltons...all rode and shot their way to notoriety....
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  • Tom Cord was within three months of retirement when bushwhack lead cut him down. No lawman ever allowed one of his fellow officers to be murdered without making every effort to get his killer. Deputy Sheriff Bradford Counter, a modern-day gun wizard,...



  • In this game, the winning hand is the one that holds the gun!

    A cardsharp with a conscience, Frank Derringer comes to the crooked town of Tribune, Kansas, looking to even a score or two. But after cheating the cheaters who robbed a good frie...



  • A good town to die in ... There are six passengers on the stagecoach from Promontory to Ratchet Creek -- among them a beautiful singer with bad intentions, a lawman dressed in deacon's garb ... and a red-headed hellion named Martha Jane Canary, wh...



  • From Book 1: FROM THE MASTER OF ACTION-ESCAPISM COMES THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE!

    BUNDUKI, ADOPTED SON OF TARZAN!

    They called James Allenvale Gunn ‘Bunduki’, the Swahili word for firearm of any kind. He and Dawn Drummond-Clayton sho...



  • THE KING OF ACTION-ESCAPIST FICTION BRINGS YOU THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE!!BUNDUKI AND DAWN!!Transported to the primitive planet of Zillikian by the mysterious ‘Suppliers’, Bunduki and his cousin, Dawn, found themselves fighting desperately for their...



  • Dawn Drummond-Clayton and Bunduki were the adoptive great-granddaughter and adopted son of Lord Greystoke -- better known as the legendary Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan had taught Bunduki all his skills, and he and Dawn found they needed them all when, ...



  • FEARLESS MASTER OF THE JUNGLE marks the return of Charole, last seen plunging from a balcony at the end of Sacrifice For The Quagga God. Now she's determined to regroup before once more making a bid for power. Secretly leaving the Mun-Gatah c...



  • Bradford Counter stood six feet three and weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. He was a graduate of the University of Southern Texas's Police Science and Administration Class and had passed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's training course f...



  • Who had taught Spit Merton to carry out a mighty slick, well-planned robbery?Why did Merton and his gang take only fifty thousand dollars from the Rocksprings’ bank when they could easily have emptied the safe?What did the dying owlhoot mean whe...



  • Gusher City, Texas...Two terrorists had seized hostages, demanding an aircraft to take them to Cuba...Then ‘Crazy Doc’ Christopher had escaped from the penitentiary, hell-bent on vengeance...But when Walter Haddon -- one of the FBI’s ten most w...



  • 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...



  • Jack Tragg, sheriff of Rockabye County, Texas, was a powerful, sun-bronzed six foot one. Although he owned traditional cowhand style outfits, he usually wore a business suit or khaki uniform. His gunbelt was a modern combat-shooter's rig, with a s...



  • A modern Texas deputy sheriff spends more time riding in a car than upon a horse, and uses every scientific aid available in fighting against crime. One thing, however, has not changed since the days of the Old West. A lawman still must know how t...



  • Mark Counter had an eye for a beautiful woman -- and he was always willing to go to the assistance of a lady in distress. But whilst handling a chore for his boss, Ole Devil Hardin, he met two ladies who came close to making him change his ways…The...



  • “Even with a psycho there’s a point of contact in the killings,” Sheriff Jack Tragg told Deputies Fayde and Counter as they went to investigate the third apparently unconnected murder in which the same gun had been used. “Find it and at least...



  • 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 roa...



  • Despite being on very good terms with Freddie Woods, Dusty Fog knew no more about her past than anybody else in the trail end town of Mulrooney. But with the coming of the British Railroad Commission to the town the secret of the beautiful and talent...



  • 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 unl...



  • While underneath for the third time, Hack gripped the lash of the whip in both hands and on surfacing gave it a savage jerk which shot the girl towards him. As he saw her coming, Hack’s mind worked with its usual speed. Once he laid hands on her, h...



  • On vacation in Mexico, Woman Deputy Alice Fayde and he partner Deputy Sheriff Bradford Counter hoped that they could forget crime for a few days. Giving a lift to an English girl, they found themselves involved with hired killers and entangled in the...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • To be fair to her, Miss Martha Jane Canary did not look for trouble. She never needed to. Trouble came her way like a spawning salmon finding the river of its birth. What began as a simple business trip wound up with her driving a stagecoach through ...



  • 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 hous...



  • Can the Ysabel Kid keep his bet with the others of the Floating Outfit and keep out of trouble?When the young newcomer to the town of Wet Slim discovered that Mavis Dearington had been kidnapped, he knew it was imperative that the ransom be paid. For...



  • 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 Reb...



  • 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 Mi...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • J.T.’s ladies prove once again that they are more than a match for any man in the tough and dangerous West.Woman Deputy Alice Fayde copes with three murderous criminals; Amanda ‘Blonde Genius’ Tweedle saves The Daughters of Gentlefo...



  • 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 th...



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    Here they all are – some of the most-loved characters in popular fiction – gathered together in one bumper volume to pay tribute to the mastery of the pen of J T Edson. There’s Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid, Waco, Miss Mar...



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    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...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.T. Edson has published 141 books.

J.T. Edson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Amazons of Zillikian, was published in November 2023.

The first book by J.T. Edson, Ysabel Kid, was published in January 1968.

Yes. J.T. Edson has 8 series.