Floating Outfit Books in Order

The Floating Outfit escorts Elmo Thackeray's relatives and friends to hear his will. A provision awarding everything to the last surviving beneficiary turns the gathering into a dangerous contest, with one heir apparently intent on eliminating the others.

Wes Hardin flees after a wrestling-booth confrontation becomes a gunfight, leaving him accused of murder without surviving witnesses. His cousin Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit take up his cause against the corruption surrounding the case.

Danny Fog dies trying to bring law to a town whose residents failed to support him. His brother Dusty arrives determined to confront its killers and cowards, prepared to act even if nobody will stand beside him.

Mark Counter travels with Dusty Fog and the Ysabel Kid after receiving word from Belle Starr. Finding the outlaw murdered turns a hoped-for reunion into an investigation that draws the Floating Outfit into danger in the Indian Nations.

Orphaned Waco grows up with an impoverished ranching family before drifting away as a teenager. His guns and combative temper threaten to lead him outside the law, until a meeting with Dusty Fog offers another direction.

Young Sandy McGraw faces attempts to cheat him out of an inherited ranch. Red Blaze, Betty Hardin and Dusty Fog intervene, but even their fighting skills and experience cannot keep the inheritance dispute from becoming dangerous.

Three sheriffs have died trying to control Quiet Town, where gunmen dominate daily life. The residents turn to Dusty Fog, hoping his experience and fast draw can establish a law stronger than the killers' weapons.

Mark Counter hunts the gang responsible for killing his friend Sailor Sam Carol. Finding its leader held by the Kaddo creates a further challenge: bringing the murderer to trial rather than leaving him to face torture.

The KH ranch refuses to join Lanton's cattle syndicate, leaving it exposed to hired killers from his S Star outfit. Dusty Fog and two fellow Texans arrive as the pressure on the independent spread intensifies.

Mysterious disappearances threaten to turn hostility between rival ranches into a range war. Mark Counter, Dusty Fog and the Ysabel Kid investigate the missing men before the growing feud erupts into open violence.

Dusty Fog leads Mark Counter, Red Blaze, the Ysabel Kid and Waco through adventures as the Floating Outfit. Their contrasting temperaments and fighting abilities shape a band whose loyalty to one another supports their pursuit of justice.

Ed Ballinger proudly shows his small revolver to the Floating Outfit, only to receive warnings about facing Reckhart's men. Dusty Fog and his companions confront him with the practical dangers of surviving in a gun-ruled West.

Orphaned Waco grows up with an impoverished ranching family before drifting away as a teenager. His guns and combative temper threaten to lead him outside the law, until a meeting with Dusty Fog offers another direction.

Gunmen seeking Mahon shoot a young Texan and steal his horse, believing they have left him dead. In Escopeta they encounter two more Texans, unwittingly drawing Dusty Fog into the consequences of their attack.

Loncey Dalton Ysabel's upbringing gives him skill with rifles, knives, horses and tracking. Known as the Ysabel Kid, he meets Dusty Fog and Mark Counter as the three men come together at the beginning of the Floating Outfit's adventures.

Thad Toon intimidates cowhands into refusing Ben Holland's cattle drive and hires killers to enforce the boycott. Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit arrive in Granite City, ready to challenge the blockade and get the herd moving.

Rancher Sam Catlan and his sons are shot in the back, leaving Waco determined to avenge the man who raised him. Red Blaze and Doc Leroy help him search for the killers while other Floating Outfit members recover elsewhere.

The Flores brothers mock kilt-wearing Scotsman Colin Farquharson, misjudging the stranger's abilities. After their confrontation leaves one brother dead, the surviving gang pursues revenge, making Farquharson the target of men who once laughed at him.

Dusty Fog takes charge of defending Baptist's Hollow when a band of Apache warriors attacks. The fight places the town's safety in his hands, testing his ability to lead its defense against the assault threatening it.

The killing of a sacred white buffalo and the kidnapping of Sioux chief Grey Bear threaten conflict in North Texas. The Ysabel Kid must use his knowledge and connections to prevent the separate provocations from igniting war.

Charles Goodnight sets out for Fort Sumner with thousands of cattle and the Floating Outfit's support. With Dusty Fog as his deputy, he hopes to prove that long-distance drives can open profitable markets for Texas herds.

Charles Goodnight develops a plan to supply eastern cities with Texas beef, helped by Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid. Making it work requires more than luck when John Chisum becomes an obstacle to his ambitions.

A shooting contest in Tombstone offers a matched pair of decorated Colt revolvers, attracting Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and other gunmen. Dusty Fog enters as the overlooked contestant, facing rivals whose reputations make the competition formidable.

Red Blaze's partner is attacked with an arrow, and an Apache woman is shot on the reservation. The violence suggests a deliberate attempt to provoke war, with Red himself standing in the way of those behind it.

Former Confederate cavalryman Dusty Fog discovers that someone has offered a reward for his death. With bounty hunters and hired gunmen seeking to collect, he must identify the person behind the threat before they catch him.

Comanche war chief Sidewinder's raids threaten peace in Texas and invite retaliation from settlers and soldiers. Preventing wider conflict requires someone who understands the Comanche well enough to challenge a policy endangering both communities and his own people.

Gavin Gartree and his gang target a seemingly helpless pilgrim girl. Her companion, Dusty Fog, looks equally unimpressive, but the outlaws discover that size offers a poor guide to the danger posed by this Texas gunfighter.

The Ysabel Kid intervenes when a mob prepares to lynch a man. His Comanche heritage makes him another target, forcing the young gunfighter to confront men who mistake prejudice and superior numbers for an easy victory.

John Chisum wants his own men to control a roundup across Comanche country. When Dusty Fog is chosen instead, the young Texan must face Chisum's gunmen as rival ambitions threaten the work ahead.

Armed with newly acquired Colt revolvers, Dusty Fog heads into Mexico to rescue a friend of the Ysabel Kid. The Floating Outfit faces a conspiracy threatening Mexico's government and risking another war with the United States.

Gold seekers pour toward the Black Hills, threatening Sioux territory and a wider war. Dusty Fog and his companions become involved in the effort to restrain the rushers, working amid tensions between settlers, soldiers and Native people.

The Kansas governor disguises himself as a Texas cowhand to investigate lawlessness in Triblet. Accompanied by Dusty Fog and three other Texans, he enters a trail town where restoring order requires more than political authority.

Feuding saloon owners Buffalo Kate and Freddie Woods keep Mulrooney in turmoil. Dusty Fog and his fellow Texans take responsibility for the Kansas town's peace, confronting a rivalry that ordinary attempts at law enforcement cannot settle.

Mark Counter's polished clothes conceal the fighting skills of a Floating Outfit gunman. His encounters with Calamity Jane, Poker Alice, Madame Bulldog and Madame Moustache bring a succession of forceful women into his Western adventures.

Brent Mallick uses gunmen to pressure ranchers around Barlock into surrendering their land. When his men threaten the Lasalle ranch, Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid stand against a takeover backed by violence.

With a bounty on her head, Calamity Jane faces hunters eager to collect. She joins forces with Mark Counter of the Floating Outfit, bringing together two capable fighters whose dangerous reputation offers little prospect of a quiet life.

Colonel Raines leads a wagon train west, but an ambush kills its scout, Tom Blade. Dusty Fog and three fellow Texans offer help, taking on the task of protecting settlers whose journey has become dangerously vulnerable.

Eastern businessmen arrive in Rio Hondo country with money and hired guns, expecting an easy takeover. Their plans bring them into conflict with Dusty Fog and the O.D. Connected ranching outfit, whose loyalties resist division.

The Kansas governor recruits Dusty Fog and four fellow Texans to restore order in Trail End. Wearing lawmen's badges, they confront corrupt officials and businessmen whose control of the cattle town threatens violence across the state.

Colin Farquharson refuses to sell his horse to a French aristocrat's wife. Her husband brings soldiers and hired killers to enforce the sale, leaving Dusty Fog's newly formed Floating Outfit to defend the Scot against overwhelming numbers.

An outlaw town hidden in the Palo Duro shelters criminals behind armed Comanche protection. The Floating Outfit must enter this stronghold and break an alliance that prevents ordinary posses from reaching it and threatens the surrounding country.

Dusty Fog returns to the outlaw town of Hell because he fears for the people left behind. The Ysabel Kid and Waco accompany him, while another member of their party secretly intends that none of them survive.

Former Confederate spy Belle Boyd now serves the U.S. Secret Service. When a new Southern separatist conspiracy kills two friends, her investigation becomes a personal pursuit of revenge against leaders planning to reopen the country's wounds.

Colonel Goodnight's proposed cattle drive to Kansas threatens slaughterhouse owners who profit from paying Texas ranchers little. They hire armed men to stop him, forcing Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit into a fight around Fort Worth.

Austin Viridian seeks to dominate the wealth remaining in Texas after the Civil War. Colonel Goodnight's successful cattle drives threaten his control, provoking a range conflict between entrenched business interests and ranchers seeking better markets.

The Ysabel Kid travels into Mexico to recover James Bowie's legendary knife from the man who killed him at the Alamo. Competing criminals and fighters turn a seemingly straightforward errand into a struggle over the prized weapon.

Protecting a visiting crown prince in Texas brings the Floating Outfit up against rival groups of assassins. Dusty Fog believes the deadliest killer has been eliminated, until disturbing events suggest their royal charge still faces that threat.

Dusty Fog and the Floating Outfit must protect a European crown prince visiting Texas. Assassins converge on Corpus Christi, and signs that an old adversary remains active complicate a job already filled with competing threats.

The Pilar Hide and Tallow Company's partners fear that Charles Goodnight's cattle-driving scheme will cut their profits. Mark Counter must break their agreement, putting him in the path of ruthless businessmen prepared to protect their interests with violence.

A royal hunting trip places Crown Prince Rudolph in the Floating Outfit's care. Dusty Fog and his companions face numerous would-be killers, while doubts about the death of the dangerous assassin Beguinage make protection even harder.

After a disastrous cattle drive, Dusty Fog sends Waco away without a horse, marking him as untrustworthy. With his future threatened by the disgrace, the young gunman presents a dangerous challenge to the man who dismissed him.

Assigned to protect a visiting European crown prince, Dusty Fog confronts a supposedly infallible assassin called Beguinage. His plan requires using himself as bait, putting his own life at risk to prevent the royal visitor's murder.

The Bad Bunch use county fairs and deliberately set fires to distract towns before robbing banks. Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and the Ysabel Kid plan to intercept their next raid, but the gang proves harder to trap than expected.

Five skilled cowhands protect Ole Devil Hardin's O.D. Connected Ranch and help people facing trouble in West Texas. Led by Dusty Fog, the Floating Outfit combine scouting, medical knowledge and gunfighting experience to confront frontier dangers.

Powerful but apparently gentle Tiny Crumble worries the Floating Outfit when he visits the railroad town of Mulrooney. A deadly robbery requiring exceptional strength makes Dusty Fog and his companions question whether their trust in Tiny is misplaced.

The Floating Outfit's five Texans share a loyalty that turns a threat against one into a challenge for all. Their frontier adventures follow cowhands whose friendships, fighting skills and willingness to stand together draw them into gunplay.

A Texas town boss drives away schoolteachers and arranges the murder of their latest replacement. Dusty Fog and Betty Hardin arrive undercover, determined to challenge the man keeping Grattan's children ignorant and its citizens under his control.

The Ysabel Kid learns that Mavis Dearington has been kidnapped by Mexican bandits. With her uncle planning a dangerous cross-border rescue, he sets out alone to free her before the attempt can provoke an international incident.

Teachers in Grattan, Texas, are threatened into leaving, and one is murdered to protect the town boss's power. Dusty Fog arrives as a new instructor, ready to challenge the scheme with help from his cousin Betty Hardin.

Land-grabbers plan to take Morton Lewis's ranch by making his murder appear lawful. Dusty Fog and the Ysabel Kid intervene, knowing an attack on the Comanche chief's grandson could spark revenge and a wider conflict.

These stories follow the Floating Outfit's work for Ole Devil Hardin. Dusty Fog faces confidence tricksters, Waco and Doc Leroy confront an attempted assassination, and Mark Counter comes to the aid of a kidnapped relative.

A Comanche medicine man's prediction threatens to unite Plains tribes in an uprising. Dusty Fog and his companions must persuade one band to join the reservation while trying to prevent a conflict that could engulf the West.

Olga Chernyshevsky's attempt to make diamonds accidentally produces emeralds and sends her fleeing into dangerous company. While poker and a criminal's girlfriend complicate her escape, the Floating Outfit faces its own struggle to keep peace in Mulrooney.

When Freddie Woods's hidden past is exposed, she faces extradition to stand trial for murder. Town marshal Dusty Fog must choose between arresting the woman he loves and violating the oath that defines his duty.

A gemstone-making experiment goes wrong, leaving Olga Chernyshevsky on the run and caught up in a perilous poker game. Meanwhile, Ole Devil Hardin's Floating Outfit tries to maintain order in Mulrooney against determined opposition.

After Raymond Sangster saves him from an ambush, Dusty Fog feels bound to repay the debt. That obligation threatens a friend's land and the unity of the Floating Outfit when Sangster's railroad plans become clear.

Four stories follow Mark Counter's relatives across the Old West, modern Texas, and an African wildlife reserve. Law officers, rogues, and game warden Bunduki face different dangers, extending the family's adventures beyond Mark's own frontier world.

Belle Boyd investigates a militant brotherhood raising money and weapons for another Southern rebellion. Recognizing the danger of its armed followers, the former Confederate spy seeks Dusty Fog's help to stop the organization's growing threat.

Dusty Fog, Mark Counter, and the Ysabel Kid defend an Arizona county against forces determined to control its wealth. Hired gunmen escalate the conflict, and taking women hostage brings Calamity Jane into the fight.

Rancher Stone Hart faces land grabbers and bank robbers seeking control of an Arizona county. As the struggle for the range becomes open warfare, reinforcements including Calamity Jane join him against the incoming speculators.

The Ysabel Kid is tracking robbers who prey on returning cowhands when another gang kidnaps Ole Devil Hardin's granddaughter. His pursuit shifts into a rescue mission, complicated by an unexpected mastermind directing the criminals.

Stone Hart takes a crew of Texans and a herd of longhorns to an Arizona ranch inherited from an uncle. Settling into the property becomes dangerous when neighboring rivals decide they want to claim it themselves.