Trail Boss (Floating Outfit, #10) By J.T. Edson

J.T. Edson ¸ 7 review

After being ambushed in Dodge City the year before Ben Holland, a kinsman of Dusty Fog, is unable to make the trip to Kansas. His neighbor, Thad Toon, takes advantage of the fact that Ben's wife Thora must fill his place and tries to keep her from getting a crew together. Unfortunately for him Old Devil Hardin has sent his floating outfit along to help out. Once word gets out that Dusty is bossing the drive they have the pick of the town. Those familiar with JT's Civil War series will remember Billy Jack and Kiowa (Dusty's sergeant major and scout respectively); both men were also members of the floating outfit in earlier stories. With a top notch crew assembled Dusty and the floating outfit take the herd to Dodge City and make the town in general, and one Wyatt Earp in particular, back down and hunt for cover. The Ysabel Kid finally meets up with an old enemy, Kliddoe, and reveals the secret of the third model Colt Dragoon he was using in place of a rifle in the first book of the series. Paperback Some of the names mentioned in these novels are real people.

That is where the similarity ends.

In many ways these are modern versions of the old dime novels. The only similarity to the truth are the fact that... The author mentions real people.

However if you just want to read an old fashion cowboy shoot em up, that's what these books are. Paperback A typical Western, J T Edson has written a huge number of books, featuring his favourite Texans - Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid.

What is interesting about 'Trail Boss', is his attention to detail, with a lot of research done into how these cowboys managed to handle the huge number of cattle during a trail drive, the dangers involved, details about the saddles, lassos and how they managed to work under very arduous conditions.

Besides this, he also describes their weapons well - Colt handguns and Winchester rifles, that his heroes and villains use, along-with the usual story-line of how the good guys eventually overcome the baddies... Paperback Another of my favourite J T Edson books. The description of how a Trail Boss choses his crew is excellent as is the description of the trials and tribulations faced on the trail. Paperback If you want to know about a cattle trail back in the wild West days, this is the book to read.

Apart from the usual fun things associated with Dusty Fog and his cheerful companions, this book has the additional colorful depiction of the cattle trail life

Surely worth a read Paperback

Since Thad Toon had put the injun sign in Ben Holland's spread, no cowhand would ride with the Rocking H's trail drive. Just to make sure, a rough-cut gang of killers had been hired to keep it that way. Then Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit rode into Granite City, and Dusty decided to take up the dare...and teach the Double T what Texas trail-bossing was all about! Trail Boss (Floating Outfit, #10)

Far and away one of of not the best of JTE's Floating Outfit series. Excellent. Paperback Awesome

I use to read a lot of westerns and this is still one of the best.
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