[sinclairfan]

Belle Boyd was definitely Edson's most accomplishex fighter.

[cosette]

Love this thread and love JT Edsons book!

One of the Rockabye County books has a scene where the woman cop drives, intentionally not bringing her gun and badge, to another woman's house, specifically so they can fight.  If I remember correctly, the resulting epic catfight includes biting.

This sounds interesting! I'm really interested in the fights with Alice Fayde and The Rockabye County series. There's no catfight in "The Lawmen of Rockabye County"

If I remember it right there's three catfights in "Bad Hombre", one where Alice Fayde fights a woman called Hippolyta while beeing recorded by Hippolytas husband and the first two fights is between Hippolyta and another woman. I think all three fights are in private with only Hippolytas husband recording...

Anyone read anything from JTs Cap Fog series?

[coachzzz]

I usually do not post but in this case I think I can add something to the conversation. 

I own about 60 or so of the JT Edson books.   About 50% have some female fighting in them.  They range from excellent to hardly mentionable.   Slip Gun has always been my all time favorite of the group.   The two characters are well drawn, the scene is long and well described and it is very easy to visualize.   The fight is even and back and forth, and it is a fun read.   The reconciliation two chapters later seemed reasonable to me.   At least in fiction, when two former friends fight, either it ends the feud or it significantly deepens it.  In this case, the first scenario happens.  There was still some residual tension the day after the fight, but in this case the issues that have drove them apart got some resolution between the two, so it felt fine to me.

At the prompting of this thread, I have sent for the majority of the Rockabye County novels Mr. Edson did.   Don't bother with the 1/4 Second Draw, the Lawmen of Rockabye County, Point of Contact or Back to the Border--there is nothing or next to nothing in each. Three of the remaining four books that I have received had female fight scenes.   

The Sheriff of Rockabye County has 3 different scenes, including Alice in a pretty good fight with a villaness.   

The Deputies has the best fight so far of the series, when a case of mutual mistaken identity pits Alice against a lady pro wrestler in a hotel room.  The fight lasts many pages and is very much back and forth.  I find it to be one of the better ones Mr. Edson did.   

The Professional Killers has two fights, including the one mentioned above with Alice driving to her rival's house.   The build up to the fight throughout the book is excellent--before, during and after the fight you get more information as to how and why Alice felt the way she did.   The fight itself is frustratingly short, only lasting 2 1/2 pages.  The conversation leading to the fight lasted as long in pages as the fight itself.  If he had found a way to lengthen the fight to 6 pages or so (as he did in Slip Gun and many other examples), it could have been a contender. 

I am waiting on Bad Hombre, which I am already aware has multiple scenes in the book. 

Thanks for the thread, and thanks also to all of the writers here on this site who have entertained myself and others throughout the years.

[coachzzz]

I did the past post in too much of a haste.   When I referred to Back to the Border, I really meant Run for the Border, which is a Rockabye County novel.  Sorry for the confusion.

[cosette]

Big thanks for your information coachzzz!
Do you know if there is any more catfights in the Waxahachie Smith series than in Slip Gun? (No finger on trigger and Cure the Texas Fever)


Then there's Texas Teamwork, The Owlhoot and The Sixteen Dollar Shooter left in the Rockabye County series. Anyone know anything about these?

I'm doing a list:

No Catfights:
Texas Kidnappers
Cuchilo
A Town Called Yellowdog
Go Back to Hell
Guns in the Night
Cut one, they all bleed
The Lawmen of Rockabye County
The Quarter Second Draw
Point of Contact
Run for the Border

[coachzzz]

One more quick update.   Texas Teamwork has a single fight at the beginning featuring one of the other characters in the novel.   Not great, not bad.   It is set in an "apartment wrestling" context. 

I don't have Cure the Texas Fever, but I do have No Finger on the Trigger and it has no female fight scene.

[maine516]

Thanks guys.  With 50 books bought so far, and still quite a few out there, it certainly helps to weed out the books without catfights.  As I noted above, only 4 of the 50 books I have lack a catfight.

[CoffeeMug]

Thanks for the new information, folks.  I bought and read A Matter of Honor, and I have Professional Killers on the way.  It feels a lot better knowing you're getting something worthwhile and not guessing.  Speaking of, do any of the new contributors in the thread know anything about the Bunduki series?  I have the first one, but I want to know where to find the promised fight between Dawn and the uber-hot female leader of the natives (whose name I cannot find right now, but if you've got the series I'm sure you know who I mean) and if it's worth the money.

Thanks.

[CoffeeMug]

Also, I've read the 3 stories you've done under "Kim" on Seakings website.  I though all three were pretty good.  My preference for catfights is that they are private affairs, so the one I particularly enjoyed is the follow-up fight scenario where 1 woman is a realty agent and the other woman shows up when the client is a cancellation (sorry, I don't recall their character names at the moment) and they fight around the house.  I also liked the swampland fight as that's a good theme.  I'll be re-reading these so I may have further comments later.

 

Thanks!  I wrote quite a few more than three, though, so if you like them look around Sea King's site some more.  He sorts them by year, so maybe that's it.  A few more would be considered "private," but most of them not.

[JT Edson]

Also, I've read the 3 stories you've done under "Kim" on Seakings website.  I though all three were pretty good.  My preference for catfights is that they are private affairs, so the one I particularly enjoyed is the follow-up fight scenario where 1 woman is a realty agent and the other woman shows up when the client is a cancellation (sorry, I don't recall their character names at the moment) and they fight around the house.  I also liked the swampland fight as that's a good theme.  I'll be re-reading these so I may have further comments later.

 

Thanks!  I wrote quite a few more than three, though, so if you like them look around Sea King's site some more.  He sorts them by year, so maybe that's it.  A few more would be considered "private," but most of them not.

What is the address for Sea King's site please?

[sinclairfan]

www.seakingsfemfight.com

Go to the 2013 stories, Kim's 2013 Florida Women 10-part series, especially the last two.

[cosette]

I'm thinking about buying some more JT Edson books... Of course I want the ones with the best fights...
I was thinking about these:
- Back To The Bloody Border
- Hell In The Palo Duro
- Slip Gun
- The Fast Gun
- Terror Valley
- The Quest For Bowie's Blade

I already own some JT Edson books, so maybe I already have some of the "best" (longest?) fights...
Any comments on these (other than the comments already made)

Anyone know anything about the Bunduki books other than the first?
Bunduki and Dawn
Sacrifice for the Quagga God
Fearless Master of the Jungle

[sinclairfan]

Simply can't go wrong with Back to the Bloody Border.  Edson's favorite fighter (Belle Boyd) with the highest possible stakes (crowd gets to have its way with the loser).

[CoffeeMug]

Anyone know anything about the Bunduki books other than the first?
Bunduki and Dawn
Sacrifice for the Quagga God
Fearless Master of the Jungle

Yeah, they are outrageously expensive on Amazon.

[sinclairfan]

Did Edson make a blooper in the Horse Called Mogollon fight?  The French girl starts pantless and the American in jeans, but then Edson has the French girl get leglocked and she fights out of it by biting the American's thighs.  But how can you bite someone's thighs if she has jeans on?