Well, in spite of JT having what certainly seemed to me far less than desirable political views, I am somewhat saddened by his passing. I am not aware of any other book author who contributed as much to the interests of catfighting. I also actually enjoyed his obvious passion for writing about the Old West and I learned a lot about that era, though probably at times in more descriptive details than necessary. A good example to me of learning about the West is the book Comanche, which provides a lot of interesting detail about being raised as a Comanche. I also liked his characters, especially the Ysabel Kid, Dusty Fog, and of course his portrayals of Belle Boyd, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane and many other female characters in his books. I truly wish there was a modern day person to take his place.
As to D D-C's hair color, it's described as "tawny". I believe that's a lighter, orangy shade of brown.
I've read around 50-55 books so far and can't remember all of the fights, but I keep a record and assign a number to them between 3 and 0, with 3 being excellent in my opinion and 0 having no catfights. I've not yet come across most of the books on cosette's list, but I can comment on 3 of them as follows:
Trouble Busters = 3
Gunsmoke Thunder = 1
The Remittance Kid = Has a catfight, but I haven't read the book yet
CoffeMug - I have some good news. Fearless Master arrived yesterday. I've only flipped though the book so far, but although the fight I was hoping to read about between D D-C and Charole does not happen (it almost does at the end), there is a much better than average fight between Charole, Protectress of The Quagga God, and Shushi, war-lady of another tribe, that takes place around a camp setting. At the very beginning of the fight, both women sense it will be a hard hand-to-hand fight. While circling each other at the start, Shushi removes her tunic to leave her clad only in brief silk scarlet panties, as brief as the only garment worn by Charole. It's an all-out battle and the fight description runs about 5 pages. Charole also has an earlier battle with another Amazon warrior but it's a sword fight. The book has many references to jungle warrior women, so that certainly helps with the suspense. The book wasn't cheap - I picked up a very good condition copy for $13. To me it looks like it was worth it, but you'll have to make that decision.
