J. T. Edson

When the disease 'Texas Fever' affects cattle ranchers, the government is ready to do anything to find the cure. This means pardoning Waxahachie Smith, a wanted man, now the bodyguard to the brilliant vet who seems close to finding the cure.

The cities of the eastern States were hungry for beef. The problem was how to get it to them. Colonel Charles Goodnight had a plan that might work - if he had all the luck he needed. Things seemed to be going well, especially with the Floating Outfit on his side - Mark Counter, the Ysabel Kid and Dusty Fog, the small Texan who walked tall. But what Goodnight didn’t need was an enemy like John Chisum ...

It seems when a lady's called 'Calamity', chaos follows wherever she goes - even to the peaceful railroad town of Mulrooney, Kansas. Martha 'Calamity' Jane Canary never expected to inherit a hardscrabble ranch. She might have even ignored the legal summons to claim her property.. if someone hadn't tried to kill her first. But Calamity's got an ally - a Texas gun called the Ysabel Kid... and a mule-stubborn willingness to lay down her life for what's right.