Mississippi Raider (28 page)

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According to the world’s foremost
fictionist genealogist, Philip Jose Farmer—author of, among
numerous other works,
TARZAN ALIVE, the Definitive Biography of Lord
Greystoke,
and
DOC SAVAGE, His Apocalyptic Life—
with whom we have consulted, Belle
Boyd was the grand-aunt of Jane, Lady Greystoke, nee Porter, whose
biography is recorded in the
TARZAN OF THE APES
series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

xix
An
epee de combat
is used mainly for thrusting and the
saber was originally intended chiefly for slashing from the back of
a horse.

xx
One incident in Rose Greenhow’s career is recorded
in:
KILL
DUSTY FOG!

xxi
Told in
THE COLT AND THE SABRE
and
THE REBEL SPY.

xxii
Told in
THE BLOODY BORDER.
Details of Captain Dustine Edward Marsden “Dusty”
Fog’s and the Ysabel Kid’s careers are given in the
Civil War
and
Floating
Outfit
series.

xxiii
Told in
BACK TO THE BLOODY BORDER.

xxiv
Told in
THE HOODED RIDERS.

xxv
Information regarding the career of Martha “Calamity Jane”
Canary is to be found in the
Calamity Jane
series and she makes “guest”
appearances
in
Part One, ‘The Bounty on Belle Starr’s Scalp’; TROUBLED
RANGE;
its
“expansion,”
CALAMITY, MARK AND BELLE; Part One, ‘Better Than Calamity,’
THE WILDCATS; THE BAD BUNCH; THE FORTUNE HUNTERS; Part Six, ‘Mrs.
Wild Bill,’ J.T.’S LADIES; Part Four, ‘Draw Poker’s Such a
Simple
Game,’ J. T.’S
LADIES RIDE AGAIN (“costarring” with the lady outlaw Belle Starr);
Part Seven, ‘Deadwood, August the 2nd, 1876,’ J. T.’S HUNDEDTH;
Part
Four,
‘A Wife for Dusty Fog,’ THE SMALL TEXAN
and
GUNS IN THE NIGHT.

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Belle Starr makes “guest” appearances in
RANGELAND HERCULES;
THE BAD BUNCH; DIAMONDS, EMERALDS, CARDS AND COLTS; THE CODE OF
DUSTY FOG; THE GENTLE GIANT; HELL IN THE PALO DURO; GO BACK TO
HELL; Part Four, ‘A Lady Known As Belle,’ THE HARD RIDERS; Part
Two, ‘We Hang Horse Thieves High,’ J. T.’S HUNDREDTH
and
Part Six, ‘Mrs.
Wild Bill,’ J. T.’S LADIES.
The circumstances of her death are told in
GUNS IN THE
NIGHT.

The lady outlaw “stars,” no pun
intended, in
WANTED! BELLE STARR.

We are frequently
asked why it is the “Belle Starr” we describe is so different from
a photograph that appears in various boots. The researches of
Philip Jose Farmer,
q.v.,
have established the lady for whom we are biographer is not
the same person as another equally famous bearer of the name.
However, the Counter family has asked Mr. Farmer and ourselves to
keep her true identity a secret and this we intend to
do.

xxvii
Told in
THE BAD BUNCH.

xxviii
Told in
TO ARMS! TO ARMS! IN DIXIE
and
THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN.

“
Floating outfit”: a group of four to six
cowhands employed by a large ranch to work the more distant
sections of the property. Taking food in a chuck wagon, or “greasy
sack” on the back of a mule, they would be away from the ranch
house for long periods and so were selected for their honesty,
loyalty, reliability, and capability in all aspects of their work.
Because of the owner of the OD Connected ranch, General Jackson
Baines “Ole Devil” Hardin’s prominence in the affairs of Texas,
members of its floating outfit were frequently sent to assist such
of his friends who found themselves in difficulties or
endangered.

Details of the career of
General Jackson Baines “Ole Devil” Hardin are given in the
Ole Devil Hardin,
Civil War
and
Floating Outfit
series; also
Part Four, ‘Mr. Colt’s Revolving Cylinder Pistol,’
J. T.’S HUNDREDTH.
His death is reported in
DOC LEROY, M.D.

xxix
Told in
SET A-FOOT.

xxx
Told in
THE QUEST FOR BOWIE’S BLADE.

xxxi
Told in
THE REMITTANCE KID
and
THE WHIP AND THE WAR LANCE.

The researches of Philip Jose
Farmer,
q.v.,
have established that Captain Patrick Reeder (later Major
General Sir, K.C.B, VC, D.S.O., MC and Bar) was the uncle of the
celebrated British detective, Mr. Jeremiah Golden Reeder, whose
biography appears in
ROOM 13, THE MIND OF
MR. J. G. REEDER, RED ACES, MR. J. G.
REEDER RETURNS, THE
GUVNOR
and
TERROR KEEP
by Edgar Wallace. Mr. Jeremiah Golden Reeder’s organization
plays a prominent part in
the events we recorded as
“CAP” FOG, TEXAS RANGER, MEET MR. J.
G. REEDER; THE RETURN OF RAPIDO CLINT AND MR. J. G. REEDER
and
RAPIDO CLINT
STRIKES BACK.

xxxii
Told in
Part Five, ‘The Butcher’s Fiery End,’ J. T.’S
LADIES.

Some other activities of the
very competent British lady criminal Amelia Penelope Diana
“Benkers” Benkinsop during her visit to the United States in the
mid-1870s are recorded in
BEGUINAGE IS DEAD!
and
Part Three, ‘Birds of a Feather,’ WANTED! BELLE
STARR.
Information about a descendant of the above
“Benkers”
—
who
also followed the family tradition of retaining the full name
regardless of who the father might be
—
Miss Amelia Penelope Diana Benkinsop, G. C, M.A.,
B.Sc. (Oxon.), owner of Benkinsop’s Academy for the Daughters of
Gentlefolk
in England, is given in
BLONDE GENIUS; Part One, ‘Fifteen The Hard
Way,’ J. T.’S LADIES
and
Part Two, ‘A Case of Blackmail,’ J. T.’S LADIES
RIDE AGAIN.
BLONDE GENIUS
is the rarest of our books.