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  ‘Pohawe the witch woman, was fixing to bust your medicine by having Giselle shot from the rim,’ Dusty explained. ‘Only Lon happened along and cut in.’

  ‘A woman again,’ O’Day sighed. ‘All my troubles have stemmed from women. Poor, treacherous, vicious little Giselle. I might have forgiven her for the betrayal if it had left me dead. But not for this—’ He indicated his face. ‘Oh well, it’s all over now. Maybe I’ll meet her and Simmy in the other Hell.’

  Looking around, Dusty found that the ammunition had been handed out. He heard the words of the sun oath rumbling out as the braves agreed that they would allow the citizens to leave unharmed and unhindered.

  ‘Sun, father, hear my words. Earth, mother, hear my words. Do not let me live for another season if I do not keep this promise.’

  The small Texan nodded in silent satisfaction. No warrior would go against the sacred sun oath. The people could leave in safety. The town of Hell would no longer offer its citizens a refuge, but they would escape with their lives and such of their property as they could take with them. When he left this time, Dusty Fog would have no conscience troubles to worry him.

  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.

  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

  Decision for Dusty Fog

  Cards and Colts

  The Code of Dusty Fog

  The Gentle Giant

  Set A-Foot

  The Law of the Gun

  The Peacemakers

  To Arms! To Arms, In Dixie!

  Hell in the Palo Duro

  Go Back to Hell

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  More on J. T. EDSON

  1 Pairaivo: chief and favorite wife.

  2 Told in The Ysabel Kid.

  3 Told in Trigger Fast.

  4 How the name came into being and what it implies is told in .44 Caliber Man.

  5 Why they did not is told in Sidewinder.

  6 Nemenuh: ‘The People’, the Comanches’ name for their nation.

  7 Tehnap, an experienced warrior; tuivitsi, an adolescent, inexperienced warrior.

  8 Told in Under the Stars and Bars and Kill Dusty Fog!

  9 More of Belle Boyd’s story is told in The Bloody Border, Back to the Bloody Border, The Hooded Riders, The Bad Bunch and The Whip and the War Lance,

  10 Told in The Colt and the Sabre and The Rebel Spy.

  11 Told in The Devil Gun.

  12 Told in ‘The Paint’ episode of The Fastest Gun in Texas.

  13 Told in Quiet Town, The Trouble Busters, The Making o f a Lawman, The Town Tamers and The Small Texan.

  14 A more detailed description of this defect is given in Calamity Spells Trouble.

  15 Mark Counter’s history is told in other of the author’s floating outfit novels.

  16 Told in The Drifter.

  17 Described in detail in Under the Stars and Bars.

  18 ‘Old yellowboy’; name given to the brass-framed Winchester Model of 1866.

  19 Ka-Dih: the Great Spirit of the Comanches.

  20 Told in Sagebrush Sleuth, Arizona Ranger, Waco Rides In and Hound Dog Man.

  21 Texas cowhands used the word ‘mount’, not ‘string’, for their work horses.

  22 The use of a hackamore and bosal is described in detail in A Horse Called Mogollon, and in .44 Caliber Man.

  23 Tawk: Comanche word meaning both grandfather and grandson.

  24 Told in Goodnight’s Dream and From Hide and Horn.

  25 Land of the Grandmother: Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria.

  26 More details of this legend are given in The Whip and the War Lance.

  27 Namae’enuh: put politely, he who has had incestuous intercourse.

  28 Told in To Arms! To Arms In Dixie.