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Fiction. Historical Fiction. Colonel Charles Goodnight believed that cattle could be driven to the railroad in Kansas and sold for high prices to supply people in the East with beef.Not everybody approved of Goodnight's idea. The owners of hide and tallow factories could buy all the cattle they wanted at between one and four dollars. If he should succeed, their vast profits would be brought to an end.Austin Viridian went to Fort Worth with the intention of preventing Goodnight's ideas from show more being circulated. Soon after his arrival, he came upon a small, blond cowhand who was talking of driving herds to Kansas. Viridian had two hard cases with him when he went to silence the cowhand.The hide and tallow man was about to make a serious mistake—his 'victim's' name was Dusty Fog!. show lessTags
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John Thomas Edson (1928) better known as J. T. Edson, is an English author of 137 Westerns, escapism adventure, and police-procedural novels. He has lived near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire since the 1950s, and retired from writing due to ill-health in 2005. Some of his titles included: Texas Fury, Texas Warrior, Oklahoma Outlaw and Ranch war. show more (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Set Texas back on Her Feet
- Original publication date
- 1973
- People/Characters
- Dusty Fog; Austin Viridian
- Dedication
- For Edward Dustine Eusden, who is as yet too young to read my books.
- First words
- 'NEW AND MORE LUCRATIVE MARKETS FOR CATTLE!'
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- English
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- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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