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The Floating Outfit #51
Ole Devil's Hands and Feet
Half-pint Texan. In a state where everything is bigger, cowpokes didn't come any smaller than Dustine Edward Marsden Fog. Hell his name was bigger than he was. There was one thing shorter than Dusty Fog--the life of any man fool enough to throw down on him!
Lead-slinging Medico. Doc Leroy could did a hunk of lead out of a mean near as fast as he could put one in with the Colt Peacemaker he toted in his black bag.
They were two of the men sworn to serve Ole Devil Harding, the crippled Texas rancher. The fastest guns and the fiercest fighters in the Southwest, they were known as Ole Devil's Hands and Feet. And anyone crossing them would be wise to watch their step...
Lead-slinging Medico. Doc Leroy could did a hunk of lead out of a mean near as fast as he could put one in with the Colt Peacemaker he toted in his black bag.
They were two of the men sworn to serve Ole Devil Harding, the crippled Texas rancher. The fastest guns and the fiercest fighters in the Southwest, they were known as Ole Devil's Hands and Feet. And anyone crossing them would be wise to watch their step...
- GenresWesterns
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 8, 1983
About the author
J.T. Edson
183 books79 followersJohn Thomas Edson is an English writer of Westerns.
He was born in 1928.He was obsessed with Westerns from an early age and often "rewrote" cowboy movies that he had seen at the cinema. One thing that always intrigued him was the minutiae—how did the baddie's gun jam? What were the mechanics of cheating at cards? How did Westerners really dress and speak?
His writing was helped to develop by a schoolteacher who encouraged him. Now lives in Leicester, Leicestershire.[citation needed]
During his 20s and 30s, Edson served in His Majesty's Armed Forces for 12 years as a Dog Trainer. Cooped up in barracks for long periods, he devoured books by the great escapist writers (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert McCraig, Nelson C. Nye and Edgar Wallace). He also sat through hours of movies starring John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn and his all-time favourite, Audie Murphy.
His first appearance in print was "Hints On Self-Preservation when attacked by a War Dog" in the Osnabrück camp magazine Shufti in 1947. Acquiring a typewriter in the early 1950s and putting it to good use while posted to Hong Kong, by the time of his discharge he had written 10 Westerns, an early version of Bunduki and the first of the short detective-type stories starring Waco.
Upon leaving HM forces, JT won second prize (with Trail Boss) in the Western division of a Literary Competition run by Brown & Watson Ltd, which led to the publication of 46 novels with them, becoming a major earner for the company.
He had the need for supplementary income from time-to-time and also served as a postman, and the proprietor of a fish 'n' chip shop. Furthermore, he branched out as a writer and wrote five series of short stories (Dan Hollick, Dog Handler) for the Victor boys papers, and wrote the "box captions" for comic strips, which instilled discipline and the ability to convey maximum information with minimum words.
His writing career forged ahead when he joined Corgi Books in the late '60s, which gave JT exposure through a major publishing house, as well as the opportunity to branch out from the core Westerns into the Rockabye County, the science-fiction hero Bunduki and other series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Edson
He was born in 1928.He was obsessed with Westerns from an early age and often "rewrote" cowboy movies that he had seen at the cinema. One thing that always intrigued him was the minutiae—how did the baddie's gun jam? What were the mechanics of cheating at cards? How did Westerners really dress and speak?
His writing was helped to develop by a schoolteacher who encouraged him. Now lives in Leicester, Leicestershire.[citation needed]
During his 20s and 30s, Edson served in His Majesty's Armed Forces for 12 years as a Dog Trainer. Cooped up in barracks for long periods, he devoured books by the great escapist writers (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert McCraig, Nelson C. Nye and Edgar Wallace). He also sat through hours of movies starring John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn and his all-time favourite, Audie Murphy.
His first appearance in print was "Hints On Self-Preservation when attacked by a War Dog" in the Osnabrück camp magazine Shufti in 1947. Acquiring a typewriter in the early 1950s and putting it to good use while posted to Hong Kong, by the time of his discharge he had written 10 Westerns, an early version of Bunduki and the first of the short detective-type stories starring Waco.
Upon leaving HM forces, JT won second prize (with Trail Boss) in the Western division of a Literary Competition run by Brown & Watson Ltd, which led to the publication of 46 novels with them, becoming a major earner for the company.
He had the need for supplementary income from time-to-time and also served as a postman, and the proprietor of a fish 'n' chip shop. Furthermore, he branched out as a writer and wrote five series of short stories (Dan Hollick, Dog Handler) for the Victor boys papers, and wrote the "box captions" for comic strips, which instilled discipline and the ability to convey maximum information with minimum words.
His writing career forged ahead when he joined Corgi Books in the late '60s, which gave JT exposure through a major publishing house, as well as the opportunity to branch out from the core Westerns into the Rockabye County, the science-fiction hero Bunduki and other series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Edson
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July 4, 2025
Really bad
Enjoy most of the Edison books, but this one like many of the later ones is poorly constructed and difficult to read.
Enjoy most of the Edison books, but this one like many of the later ones is poorly constructed and difficult to read.
March 13, 2014
Another of JT's short-story collections. The chronology is a little off in this book (for one thing all three stories take place throughout the main series) especially in the story involving Waco and Doc Leroy. The references made to the story told in Buffalo are Coming contradict the events of that book. The first story features Dusty on a solo errand for Ole Devil. He makes the most of his 'insignificant' appearance but ironically it causes him to be targeted by two teams of con-artists; they couldn't have made a worse choice. The second story describes what happened when 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). In the final story Mark once again comes to the aide 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 is less enthusiastic. The Kid does not feature in this collection, but the lyrics of some of his favorite songs are given in the back of the book.
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