J T Edson has created more dynamic Western gals than any other writer. Into a world of rough, tough, gun-slinging heroes, his high-stepping ladies hold their own with the best of the cowboy breed, out-riding, out-shooting, out-wrestling the toughest men in the West. The lady outlaw, Belle Starr; Woman Deputy Alice Fayde of Rockabye County; Rita Yarborough of Company Z, Texas Rangers; Annie Singing Bear, known as 'Is-A-Man' to the Comanche Indians; Dawn, Drummond-Clayton of Amabagasli, all demonstrate that J.T.'s ladies: beautiful and mostly virtuous, depend solely on themselves when danger threatens.