J.T. Edson Books in Order: All 143 books (1965

How many J.T. Edson books are there?

J.T. Edson has 143 books, released between 1965 and 1997. They include 8 series and 10 titles listed outside any series.

J.T. Edson Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 143 J.T. Edson books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

Cover of Slaughter's Way by J.T. Edson (1965)

Cover of The Fortune Hunters by J.T. Edson, book 1 of the Floating Outfit series (1965)

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J.T. Edson books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Floating Outfit in order

71 books

1. The Fortune Hunters
2. The Hooded Riders
3. Waco's Debt
4. A Town Called Yellowdog
5. The Law of the Gun
6. Rio Guns
7. McGraw's Inheritance
8. The Ysabel Kid
9. Trail Boss
10. The Hard Riders
11. Guns In The Night
12. Terror Valley
and 59 more in the table above

Civil War in order

13 books

1. Comanche
2. The Fastest Gun in Texas
3. The Colt and the Sabre
4. The Bloody Border
5. Kill Dusty Fog!
6. Under the Stars and Bars
7. Back to the Bloody Border aka Renegade
8. You're in Command Now, Mr.Fog aka Rebel Vengeance
9. The Big Gun
10. The Devil Gun
11. The Rebel Spy
12. A Matter of Honor
and 1 more in the table above

Calamity Jane in order

13 books

1. The Big Hunt
2. Calamity Spells Trouble aka The Road to Ratchet Creek
3. Trouble Trail
4. The Cow Thieves
5. The Bullwhip Breed
6. Cold Deck, Hot Lead
7. White Stallion, Red Mare aka Ranch War
8. The Remittance Kid
9. The Whip And The War Lance
10. The Cow Thieves aka Running Irons
11. Cut One, They All Bleed
12. The Hide And Horn Saloon
and 1 more in the table above

Rockabye County in order

11 books

1. The Professional Killers
2. The 1/4 Second Draw
3. Point of Contact
4. The Owlhoot
5. Bad Hombre
6. Run For The Border
7. The Sixteen-Dollar Shooter
8. Sheriff Of Rockabye County
9. The Lawmen of Rockabye County
10. The Deputies
11. Texas Teamwork

Waco in order

7 books

1. Arizona Ranger
2. The Drifter
3. Hound Dog Man
4. Waco Rides In
5. Doc Leroy, M.D
6. Sagebrush Sleuth
7. Waco's Badge

Alvin Dustine 'Cap' Fog in order

6 books

1. Cap. Fog, Texas Ranger, Meet Mr. J. G. Reeder
2. You're a Texas Ranger, Alvin Fog aka Alvin Fog, Texas Ranger
3. Justice of Company Z
4. Rapido Clint
5. The Return of Rapido Clint and Mr J.G. Reeder
6. Rapido Clint Strikes Back

Ole Devil in order

5 books

1. Young Ole Devil
2. Get Urrea! aka Texas Fury
3. Ole Devil and the Mule Train
4. Ole Devil and the Caplocks
5. Ole Devil at San Jacinto

Bunduki in order

4 books

1. Bunduki
2. Bunduki And Dawn
3. Sacrifice for the Quagga God
4. Fearless Master of the Jungle

Waxahachie Smith in order

3 books

1. Slip Gun
2. No Finger on the Trigger
3. Cure the Texas Fever

Standalone books

10 books

10 J.T. Edson titles here are not listed as part of any series.

J.T. Edson Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the J.T. Edson books run from Slaughter's Way (1965) to Texas Teamwork (1997), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for J.T. Edson in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read J.T. Edson books in order?

You only need to read J.T. Edson books in order within each series: the books listed here span 8 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with J.T. Edson

Start with Slaughter's Way (1965), the earliest published title.

What is the newest J.T. Edson book?

Texas Teamwork (1997) is the newest J.T. Edson book released so far.

Is there a new J.T. Edson book coming?

No next J.T. Edson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

J.T. Edson at a glance

Died: J.T. Edson died in 2014, according to Wikidata.
Last book: The newest book credited to J.T. Edson on record dates from 1997.
Release pace: J.T. Edson books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length: 12,197 pages across the 60 of 143 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade: Most J.T. Edson books, 52 of 143, were published in the 1970s.

What the J.T. Edson books are about

87 of the 143 J.T. Edson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: westerns is tagged on 45 of 87. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Westerns 45 of 87 books
Fiction in English 21 of 87 books
Texas Rangers 10 of 87 books
Dusty Fog (Fictitious character) 7 of 87 books
Fog, dusty (fictitious character) 4 of 87 books
Texas 4 of 87 books
History 3 of 87 books
Ole Devil (Fictitious character) 3 of 87 books
Dusty Fog 2 of 87 books
Short stories 2 of 87 books
Short stories, English 2 of 87 books