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  ‘I did—I think. Anyhow, Kate thinks I did and I’m not going to argue with my junior partner.’

  ‘Brownton’s done. Most of its folks are pulling out,’ Dusty told Freddie. ‘I don’t reckon there’ll be any more trouble from that area.’

  ‘Or from this, now Kate and I are friends,’ Freddie replied. ‘Mulrooney has a lot to thank you for, Dusty;

  ‘Forget it,’ Dusty replied. ‘Just see that it stays one town where a Texas man gets a square deal and I’ll be satisfied.’

  ‘That I’ll promise you,’ Freddie Woods replied.

  And she kept her promise. Mulrooney received the spur line and grew. But no matter how large it grew, the town remained the one place in Kansas where a Texas man could go and know he would be treated fairly; thanks to those trouble-busters from the Rio Hondo, the men they called Ole Devil Hardin’s floating outfit.

  About the Author

  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.

  If you enjoyed the westerns of J. T. EDSON, you may also enjoy the westerns of

  BEN BRIDGES and MIKE STOTTER:

  BEN BRIDGES:

  APACHERIA SERIES:

  Apacheria

  Lockwood’s Law

  ASH COLTER SERIES:

  Gunsmoke Legend

  Ride the High Lines

  Storm in the Saddle

  COMPANY C SERIES:

  Hit ’em Hard!

  To the Death!

  HELLER SERIES

  Heller

  Heller in the Rockies

  JIM ALLISON SERIES:

  Rattler Creek

  Blood Canyon

  Thunder Gorge

  JUDGE AND DURY SERIES:

  Hang ‘em All

  Riding for Justice

  Law of the Gun

  Trial by Fire

  Barbed Wire Noose

  Judgment Day

  MOVIE TIE-INS:

  Day of the Gun

  O’BRIEN SERIES:

  The Silver Trail

  Hard as Nails

  Mexico Breakout

  Hangman’s Noose

  The Deadly Dollars

  Squaw Man

  North of the Border

  Shoot to Kill

  Hell for Leather

  Marked for Death

  Gunsmoke is Gray

  Cold Steel

  Mean as Hell

  Draw Down the Lightning

  Flame and Thunder

  THREE GUNS WEST (Writing with Steve Hayes):

  Three Rode Together

  Three Ride Again

  Hang Shadow Horse!

  WESTERN LEGENDS (Writing with Steve Hayes):

  The Oklahombres

  The Plainsman

  THE WILDE BOYS SERIES:

  The Wilde Boys

  Wilde Fire

  Wilde’s Law

  Aces Wilde

  STAND-ALONE WESTERNS:

  Ride for the Rio!

  Back With a Vengeance

  Blaze of Glory

  Tanner’s Guns

  Coffin Creek

  The Spurlock Gun

  All Guns Blazing

  Cannon for Hire

  Montana Gunsmoke

  Starpacker

  Cougar Valley

  SHORT STORIES:

  Five Shots Left

  MIKE STOTTER

  McKINNEY WESTERNS:

  McKinney’s Revenge

  McKinney’s Law

  BRANDON AND SLATE SERIES:

  Tombstone Showdown

  Tucson Justice

  STAND ALONE WESTERNS:

  Death in the Canyon

  Vengeance Is The Spur

  SHORT STORIES:

  Six Trails West

  The Floating Outfit Series by J. T. Edson

  The Ysabel Kid

  .44 Caliber Man

  A Horse Called Mogollon

  Goodnight’s Dream

  From Hide and Horn

  Set Texas Back on Her Feet

  The Hide and Tallow Men

  The Hooded Riders

  Quiet Town

  Trail Boss

  Wagons to Backsight

  Troubled Range

  Sidewinder

  Rangeland Hercules

  McGraw’s Inheritance

  The Half-Breed

  White Indians

  Texas Kidnappers

  The Wildcats

  The Bad Bunch

  The Fast Gun

  Cuchilo

  A Town Called Yellowdog

  Trigger Fast

  The Trouble Busters

  The Making of a Lawman

  ... And more to come every month!

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  More on J. T. EDSON

  i Told in Quiet Town.

  ii Told in The Fastest Gun in Texas.

  iii Told in The Ysabel Kid.

  iv Told in Trigger Fast.

  v Hard-wintering: Old-timers’ habit of discussing the hard winters they had lived through.