The Floating Outfit Books
The richest man in Texas was dead, and it was the job of Dusty Fog and the men of the floating outfit to round all his relatives and friends and bring them to the old home place. Not for a wake, but for a showdown. Because according to Elmo Thackeray's will, the last one alive was to inherit everything!
The corrupt Yankee State Police were terrorizing Texas, and only the lightning guns of the Floating Outfit could stop them. But Dusty Fog and the boys had to find a way to fight without implication "Ole Devil" Hardin. And so the legendary nightraiders known as "The Hooded Riders" were born...
Rancher Sam Catlin and his two sons are murdered and Waco, a young man who had been raised by the kindly rancher, swears to hunt down the killer and avenge the deaths
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...
It was war in the Azul Rio basin. All the ranches but one had been pressured into joining Lanton's cattle syndicate, and the hired killers of the S Star were about to bring the only holdout into line. Then an army rode into the valley. It was only three men, but three Texans make an army when they're led by Dusty Fog...
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 to get it. During the War he had served in the "Texas Light" under Dusty Fog of the Floating Outfit. His old captain wasn't one to turn his back on a friend.Or an enemy...as the silver-strikers found out when they faced the twin Colts of the Rio Hondo Gun Wizard!
The Ysabel Kid (Floating Outfit Story, No 48) [Paperback]
The murder of outlaw Belle Starr leads Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid, and the famous Dusty Fog on a dangerous quest for revenge
When a gold strike draws greedy outlaws to Quiet Town, Dusty Fog and his Floating Outfit fight to restore law and order
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 Escopeta they met two more Texans, one a handsome blond giant, the other a small insignificant-looking individual, the sort of man one would pass in the street without a second glance. The hired gunmen passed him without a second glance and in so doing made their second, and biggest, mistake. For the small man was none other than the famous Rio Hondo gun wizard, by name of Dusty Fog. J. T. Edson was a former British Army dog-handler who wrote more than 130 Western novels, accounting for some 27 million sales in paperback. Edson’s works - produced on a word processor in an Edwardian semi at Melton Mowbray - contain clear, crisp action in the traditions of B-movies and Western television series. What they lack in psychological depth is made up for by at least twelve good fights per volume. Each portrays a vivid, idealized “West That Never Was”, at a pace that rarely slackens.
At six-three in his pearl white J.B. Stetson hat, Mark Counter was the best-dressed of the famed Floating Outfit. Some folks new to Texas took him for a "dude" -until they met up with his rough-house fists, trained in barroom brawling by the only sea-cook ever to ride the range!
When the beautiful daughter of an English Lord is chosen Mayor of a wide-open Kansas cowtown, she needs a Marshal who can think as well as shoot--and who can shoot better than any man alive. That's where Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit come in...
Backsight County was prime land--for lizards, outlaws and damn fools. Colonel Raines was considered by some to be in the last category. He had the fool idea that he could push a wagon train through the meanest country in the west. With luck. Maybe a miracle or two. And the help of a small, insignificant looking cowhand by the name of Dusty Fog...
When John Chisum, the Cattle King, and his gunslingers attempt to seize control of the round-up, their schemes are thwarted by a passing stranger, Dusty Fog
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 with fancy hat. Tom Horn was there, looking like an Apache war chief. Burt Alvord was there, the ex-deputy who never brought in a living prisoner. Wyatt Earp was there, looking like a prosperous undertaker. Then came an insignificant Texan against whom the bartender of the Bucket of Blood Saloon gave odds of ten to one. His name was Dusty Fog.
Those Texas desperados had never seen a man in a kilt before. They were laughing fit to kill, until one of them got killed--and the war was on between a greenhorn Scot and the wildest outlaws in the West. That's when the men of the Floating Outfit stepped in to show Colin how to handle a .44 and even the odds. And he learned mighty fast...
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. Of course the mob didn't know that. All they say was a baby-faced kid in black who needed to be taught a lesson...
A big country needs a big dream, and Charles Goodnight had one. He planned to drive cattle all the way to Kansas, where they would bring enough money to help rebuild war-torn Texas. A gang of yellow-bellied yankees had a different dream. They planned to stop him! So Goodnight asked for the help of a quiet ex-Reb with twin Colts and a lean kid with a "yellowboy" repeater. He didn't really have to ask. If Goodnight's dream was good for Texas, the fighting men of the Floating Outfit were in on the deal.
To clear up the lawless reputation of Triblet, a Kansas trail-end town, the governor, disguised as a Texas cowpoke, rides into town with three big Texans and one small one named Fog
Mark Counter made his living breaking wild horses. Taming wild women was another story altogether. And "wild" was too tame a word for the likes of Mary Jane Canary, Madame Bulldog and the notorious outlaw know the world over as Calamity Jane...
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 with them. Three of them were big, bold-looking cowboys. The fourth was their leader--a soft-talking little man named Dusty Fog.
Texas after "the War" was heaven for hellcats, paradise for lowlifes--and Hell on earth for honest ranchers. The range was rich with meat on the hoof, but the markets were hundreds of miles of rattlesnakes-and-Comanche country away. Any man who tried to drive cattle across Texas was bound to wind up either rich or dead. Charlie Goodnight was aiming to try...and with Dusty Fog as his segundo, it was going to take more than desert, Derringers or the Devil himself to stop him!
Two tough Kansas towns are fighting for the Texas trail-drive trade, and it's up to that magic-handed, trouble-bustin' outfit from Rio Hondo to keep the peace. But even Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit can't stop a war that's dying to begin...
In 1873 the Colt factory at Hartford, Connecticut, produced a new revolver called, for want of a better name, the Model P. Dusty Fog of the legendary Floating Outfit bought a matched brace of the new pistols just before heading into Mexico to rescue an old friend of the Ysabel Kid's. By the time Dusty's job was done, the new Colts had a proper name. Men called them the Peacemakers...
With a Colt in her purse and a price on her head, she 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.
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 … J.T. Edson was a former British Army dog-handler who wrote more than 130 Western novels, accounting for some 27 million sales in paperback. Edson’s works - produced on a word processor in an Edwardian semi at Melton Mowbray - contain clear, crisp action in the traditions of B-movies and Western television series. What they lack in psychological depth is made up for by at least twelve good fights per volume. Each portrays a vivid, idealized “West That Never Was”, at a pace that rarely slackens.
Dusty Fog, an ex-Confederate cavalryman, must find out who has put a price on his head, before a bounty hunter or hired gun is able to collect the reward
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 against an outfit called the O.D. Connected, run by a mild-mannered Texan named Dusty Fog.
The governor of Kansas calls in Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit to eliminate corruption and restore peace in the tough cattle town of Trail End
Deep in the mean badlands of Western Texas lies Hell, a renegade town protected by a gun-toting band of Comanches. When the Floating Outfit moves in, disguised as a ruthless arms-running gang, the days are numbered for this deadly community of outlaws.
An Apache warhorse gone wild, he was the magnificent prize in a fierce mustanger range war on the west Texas plains. On one side was a small army of hired killers armed to the teeth. On the other side was a proud Scot and his Texas woman, backed up by three cowhands from the Floating Outfit. Just about an even match!
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
Dusty Fog and his companions had made good their escape from Hell. But they 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. Emma Nene and Giselle Lampart also returned, hoping to bring back a fortune in jewelry. The mysterious man called Break O’Day rode with them—but he intended to be the only one to come out of Hell alive.J.T. Edson was a former British Army dog-handler who wrote more than 130 Western novels, accounting for some 27 million sales in paperback. Edson’s works - produced on a word processor in an Edwardian semi at Melton Mowbray - contain clear, crisp action in the traditions of B-movies and Western television series. What they lack in psychological depth is made up for by at least twelve good fights per volume. Each portrays a vivid, idealized “West That Never Was”, at a pace that rarely slackens.
With Austin Viridian hell-bent on controlling what little wealth the Civil War has left in Texas, Colonel Goodnight's successful cattle drives irk the ruthless Viridian and set off a bloody range war. Reprint.
Quest Bowies Blade (Paperback) by J.T. Edson
To Dusty Fog's eye, it seems like a killer's conventionis set to convene in Corpus Christi in honor ofthe 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 members of Ole Devil Hardin's Floating Outfit -- to keep his highnessbreathing while on American soil. But things are threatening to get seriously out of hand, because there're a lot more than just a few hired gunswho want a shot at this royal target. And it's looking like Fog's going to be facing an old adversary again -- the world's most feared assassin -- even though Dusty's already killed him once!
After an unknown gunman murders Doc Leroy's parents, shattering his dreams of becoming a doctor, Doc becomes a quick-drawing ranch hand and defends his town against a marauding gunslinger
To protect a European Crown Prince visiting America from a lethal assassin known as Beguinage, the governor of Texas hires the Floating Outfit--Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid, and Waco
Devil Hardin's Floating Outfit is assigned to protect a prince who is on safari, but their task becomes anything but a vacation when Europe's best assassin sets his sights on the biggest human game in the territory
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!” J.T. Edson was a former British Army dog-handler who wrote more than 130 Western novels, accounting for some 27 million sales in paperback. Edson’s works - produced on a word processor in an Edwardian semi at Melton Mowbray - contain clear, crisp action in the traditions of B-movies and Western television series. What they lack in psychological depth is made up for by at least twelve good fights per volume. Each portrays a vivid, idealized “West That Never Was”, at a pace that rarely slackens.