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 …

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 responsibility of organizing a new Arizona State Police force. He's looking for men who are brave, honest, and lightning fast with a six-gun -- talents that a drifter named Waco and his amigo, Doc Leroy, possess in abundance. But the two young Texans remember...

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,...

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 who inherited the sighting eye of an eagle from the sure-shooting, rifle-toting Kentuckian stock. From the French Creole side he got a love of cold steel and the inborn knack of handling a knife. And from his Comanche grandfather he got his horse s...

She came out of the Louisiana bayou, a hard-riding young beauty who had seen her parents killed in cold blood by agents from the North. Driven by her desire for revenge, Belle joined the Great Cause. That took her into the heart of a nation cleaved in two, and closer to her parents' killers. Joining the Secret Service of the Confederacy, she pitted her courage, wits and fighting skills against the Union's best agents. But while she spawned a legend with her daring escapades and undercover ...

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 have his trigger-fingers cut off!That was a mistake. For Waxahachie Smith was not the kind of man to accept defeat.Converting his Colt Peacemaker into a 'slip gun', and learning a whole new technique for drawing it, Smith acquired an ev...

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, Brad...

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...

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 s...

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 Oscar Burgenhof was so insignificant in appearance that he might be passed unnoticed on a deserted street. Yet his weird and erotic tastes in entertainment had driven him to a life of crime. By the time Burgenhof was brought to justice, he ...

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 law and so was formed a select group of Texas Rangers. Picked for their courage, honesty and devotion to justice, they were known as Company Z...With one exception, every man in Company Z had been a member of the Texas Rangers fo...

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.We regret that it has not been possible to include Johnny Orchid, White Hunter,...