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.

Published December 01, 2022
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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 ...

Published June 01, 2022
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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 Martha 'Calamity Jane' Canary, General Jackson Baines 'Ole Devil' Hardin, John Slaughter, Waxahachie Smith, Brady Anchor, Jefferson Trade and many more of your all-time favorites.

Published February 01, 2022
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This is the story of a Comanche warrior from birth until the day he rides off on his first war trail. It tells how he learned those things a brave-heart warrior must know; how to ride any horse ever foaled; to be skilled in the use of weapons; to follow tracks and locate hidden enemies; the way a man might move in silence and undetected; where to find food upon the Texas plains, and many other things.

He built a name among his people by tangling with Piamempits, the Big Cannibal Owl, when only seven years old. At twelve he became the first Comanche to have had two Give-Away Dances in his honor at that age. Before reaching his fourteenth birthday he had counted coup on his first human enemy.

His grandfather was Long Walker, famed war chief in the Pehnane band of the Comanche nation. Although the Pehnane medicine man named him Loncey Dalton Ysabel, to his people he was Cuchilo, the Knife. When the Mexicans along the Rio Grande came to know him, they called him el Cabrito, the Kid. Among the Texans he gained yet another name . . . they called him the Ysabel Kid.

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 ....

But, with one exception, the women were less well known in the annals of frontier legends. The exception was a beautiful, shapely, intelligent wildcat, quick in a fight, and deadly with a gun. Before she had ridden the owlhoot trails for long the posters began to appear on the sheriffs' notice boards from Canada to the Rio Grande, from the Mississippi to the Pacific ...

Wanted! Belle Starr, the Oklahoma Outlaw.

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 when he said that his companions were 'Going to church, two miles to the border?'

Figuring that the answers might show sufficient profit to help keep them in a manner to which they had always been too poor to become accustomed, Brady Anchor and Jefferson Trade set out to try to learn them. If they had realized that their search for enlightenment would bring them into contact with Widow Snodgrass and her Daughters of the Lord, they would have been a heap less willing to set about it. A whole lot of powder was going to be burned before Brady and Jeff learned the truth—most of it to throw lead in their direction.

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-sized Texas rancher looked at life and handled its problems. Slaughter said exactly what he meant, and did exactly what he said he'd do.

So when John Slaughter told Big Tag he'd kill him where he stood, he aimed to do just that ...

Who had taught Spit Merton to carry out a mighty slick, well-planned robbery? Although she was born Annie Singing Bear, the Great Spirit of the Comanche ordained that she should be reared as a fully trained warrior, and should be called, 'Should-Be-A-Boy'.

But before she could attain the status of tehnap, the Pahuraix signed a peace treaty and it seemed that Annie would never become the brave she wanted to be.

Then a girl of her village was raped by drunken Mexicans. Honor demanded that she be avenged, but the treaty must not be broken. The Elders must speak truly when they vowed no man had taken revenge. And so Annie Singing Bear became a warrior of the Comanche nation.