Arizona Territory: loaded with silver, gold, and copper—and running with blood. Now some hard-riding Texans are making a stand, backed up by the smoking guns of a bantam-fighter-turned-sheriff named Fog, the fists of a blond giant named Counter, and the honed steel of a silent killer, the Ysabel Kid. But the forces of greed aren't going to let go of Spanish Grant County without a final fight, and an army of hired gunslingers has been sent to take on the Texans. And what the outlaws can't win with Colts and Winchesters they'll try another way—by taking some women hostages, and earning the ire of a shootist named Calamity Jane!

They met in a New Orleans alleyway in the dark days following the Civil War. His name was Philippe St Andre—a peace officer—and he was in the process of being beaten up by a gang of hardcases. Her name was Martha Jane Canary, and with a few unladylike tricks she dispersed the thugs with an ease that belied her boyish appearance.That meeting proved providential for the good citizens of New Orleans and fatal for the maniacal killer who had been terrorizing the streets of the city. Already seven girls had fallen into the clutches of the notorious "Strangler". What the police needed was a girl with courage enough to act as bait for the killer, and who better, thought St Andre, than the slim girl who had saved his life and who was known throughout the West as Calamity Jane.

That there should be an attempt to kill him did not surprise Mr. J. G. Reeder. In the course of his career, the mild and gentle detective had incurred the enmity of many dangerous and desperate criminals, and one of who might be seeking revenge. What puzzled Mr. Reeder was the identity of the man behind the attempt.There was only one man capable of inspiring such fear among the British underworld that it caused the blanket of silence facing Mr. Reeder. But old Mad John Flack was dead! Or was he?Before Mr Reeder could solve the mystery, he was grateful for the support of Alvin Fog, grandson of the legendary Rio Hondo gun wizard, Dusty Fog. The youngest man ever to attain the rank of captain in the Texas Rangers, said to be the most deadly combat pistol shot of his generation, Alvin Fog needed all his skill to survive when he and Mr. Reeder stumbled on the solution!

A short-story collection featuring the men sworn to serve Ole Devil Hardin, the crippled Texas rancher. The fastest guns and the fiercest fighters in the Southwest, they were known as Ole Devil's Hands and Feet.Small Man From Polveroso City, Texas features Dusty on an errand for Ole Devil. Two teams of con-artists targets the small Texan but there was one thing shorter than Dusty Fog—the life of any man fool enough to throw down on him!The Invisible Winchester, Chief Ten Bears comes to sign a peace treaty and nearly gets assassinated. Waco and Doc Leroy must use their respective skills to save Ten Bears and prevent a war in a display of teamwork that will later serve them well as Arizona Rangers (told in the Waco Series).Responsibility to Kinfolks, Mark Counter once again comes to the aid of his black sheep cousin, Trudeau Front de Boeuf, who has been kidnapped. Red Blaze is along for the ride, thinking that any kin of Marks must be all right. Mark...

The pattern was always the same when "the Bad Bunch" made their raids. They chose their time when there was a county fair, or some such diversion, to take folks minds off the protection of their property. Then they'd start a fire in another part of town, so that all the local lawmen and officials would have their hands full with that. Then they'd move in on their chosen target.To catch them seemed easy enough for Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid. All they had to do was wait for a county fair, watch out for a fire, and then make sure they were at the bank in time to stop the planned robbery.But even the floating outfit found the Bad Bunch a mite trickier than expected!

Few men were able to match Mark Counter's Herculean strength. And then Tiny Crumble came along...Yet, despite his great size and awesomely powerful muscles, Tiny appeared to be of a trusting and gentle nature—so gentle in fact that the boys of the Floating Outfit had misgivings about allowing him to be alone in the trail end railroad town of Mulrooney. Then a robbery took place—one that could only have been committed by a man of exceptional strength.As Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, and the Ysabel Kid looked down at the shattered skull of the victim of the crime, they began to wonder if the 'Gentle Giant' was really as gentle as he seemed...

Nobody noticed the little Texan till the trouble began...It was a typical country-house party, though perhaps a touch more decorous than most - perhaps even a tiny bit dull. Then suddenly all hell broke loose. The host was found murdered and the house was bristling with hard men whose methods of extracting information were anything but polite.But nobody bothered about Rapido. And Rapido kept pretty much to himself. In fact the slow-moving, slow-talking Texan seemed remarkably ill-named. That is until danger threatened, and the quiet man, transformed into a deadly fighting machine, treated the English to a showdown worthy of Gunfight at the OK Corral.

Elmo Thackeray died the richest man in Texas, leaving his vast fortune to be divided between his relatives and friends. Ole Devil Hardin was asked to gather together the beneficiaries of the will and deliver them to the Thackeray family house. Ole Devil gave the order for his famous Floating Outfit to ride.Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Waco thought their troubles would be over when they delivered the legatees to the old house. They were wrong. Under the terms of the will, the last legatee alive inherited the entire fortune — and it looked as if one of them intended to be the survivor who claimed it all.

In the days of the open range, a cowhand's most vital possession was his horse. When a cowhand left a spread with no mount of his own, the rancher would usually allow him to borrow one from the remuda. But sometimes, if they parted on bad terms, this loan would not be made...There was no greater disgrace for a cowhand than to be set a-foot. It meant he was untrustworthy, and once the news got around, he would find it almost impossible to get a job. So when a cowhand was set a-foot, there was usually trouble ... and gunplay.Dusty Fog knew this, but he still set a-foot the man he blamed for the loss of an OC Connected trail herd and the injuries to some of his crew. He knew too that the cowhand he was disgracing was real fast with a gun—and knew that gun might be turned against him.The cowhand's only name was Waco ...

When Miss Olga Chernyshevsky was shown how easy it was to make diamonds she demanded that she too should attempt the experiment—and accidently produced emeralds. The mistake meant she had to run for her life, straight into a poker game which resulted in the fight of a lifetime with the girlfriend of the notorious Arnaud 'le Loup Garou' Chavallier. And while Olga was jumping from one knife-edge predicament to another, Ole Devil Hardin's floating outfit were trying to keep the peace in Mulrooney—against heavy odds.

Captain Dusty Fog and the Ysabel Kid had heard some shaggy tales before, but this one took the prize. Some fancy Easterners were determined to save the noble buffalo from the Indians. To do it they wanted Dusty and his Texans to make a trail drive to a safe range--a trail drive of bison.The only trouble was, Dusty and his comrades hadn't heard the half of it. The Easterners had a secret scheme up their sleeve, and it didn't have anything to do with saving buffalo. Now the Texans were heading off into a storm of dust, trouble, and blood that would begin with an ambush and end up in a town called Hell. And before it was over, the Texans would do the one thing they were sure would fix the situation: pick up their guns and fight!

The citizens of Moondog, Texas, stood staring at the small, blond, insignificant cowhand—only he seemed to be the biggest man present, towering over his two companions, and neither of them lacked size. Cold fury worked on Dusty Fog's face as he pointed to the signboard announcing the name of the town."My brother came here because you begged for help," he told them. "Danny put his life on the line and you hadn't the guts to back him. So he died. The name of this town's all wrong and I aim to see it put right. You!" His finger stabbed at the Blue Bull Saloon's bartender. "Take your paint brush and cover over 'Moondog' on that sign. Put 'Yellowdog' in its place. Yellowdog, hombre. That's what your town is—it and everybody in it." Slowly, his head hanging in shame, the bartender obeyed; for he and every man in the crowd knew that Dusty spoke the bitter truth.