No Finger on the Trigger (A Waxahachie Smith Western Book One)

by Edson, J. T.

  xlvii How a ‘Missouri Skin-Tite’ type of holster was ‘form-fitted’ and made is described in: Chapter Twelve, ‘Lieutenant Ballinger Acquires A New Skill’, THE LAW OF THE GUN.

  xlviii Told in: TRIGGER FAST.

  xlix Occasions when Captain Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog was required to pose as another person are recorded in: KILL DUSTY FOG!; BEGUINAGE; BEGUINAGE IS DEAD!; HELL IN THE PALO DURO; GO BACK TO HELL; THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN; Part One, ‘The Schoolteacher’, THE HARD RIDERS; its ‘expansion’, MASTER OF TRIGGERNOMETRY; Part One, ‘The Phantom Of Gallup Creek’, THE FLOATING OUTFIT and Part Two, ‘A Wife For Dusty Fog’, THE SMALL TEXAN.

  l Ranchers were continually making changes to their remudas in the Old West and not infrequently failed to alter the brands on the horses which came into their possession.

  li Waxahachie Smith learned Sir John Besgrove and Bradford Drexell were sincere in the reasons they had given when trying to hire him. In the case of the former, although he did have an arrangement to purchase cattle in Mexico, he had intended to delay sending to complete it until seeing what developed in Bonham County.

  lii The ‘singletree’ was also occasionally known as a ‘swingletree’, or a ‘whiffletree’.

  liii There was no town in Texas called ‘Trubshawe’. However, as we have no intention of supplying ‘liberal’ elements with information which—even at this late date —they might be able to use in their campaign to smear the law enforcement agencies of the Free World, we refuse to give the real location.

  liv An occasion when circumstances required that Captain Dustine Edward Marsden ‘Dusty’ Fog changed the manner in which he carried a revolver is recorded in: Part One, ‘Small Man From Polveroso City, Texas’, OLE DEVIL’S HANDS AND FEET.

  lv Not only did Orville Garfew ‘Fluency’ Beech follow the lead of his grandfather, Donald, by enrolling in the United Stales’ Secret Service and wearing an equally unnecessary black eye-patch, he rose to be its head during the 1930’s. See the Doc Savage biography, RED SNOW, by Kenneth Robeson.

  lvi J.F.B. Charriere devised the hypodermic syringe in 1852 and its use was widespread by the period of this narrative.

  lvii How deadly anthrax could be is demonstrated by a man in the United States of America having died as a result of being infected while working upon a piece of ivory from the tusk of an elephant which had died of the disease in Africa.

  lviii The incident is recorded in: Chapter Fifteen, ‘Kill Me and You’ve Killed Him Too’, DOC LEROY, M.D.

  An occasion when Marvin Eldridge ‘Doc’ Leroy benefitted from another doctor following the habit of having a revolver readily available is described in: Part Five, ‘A Case Of Infectious Plumbeus Veneficium’ in THE FLOATING OUTFIT.

  lix In actual fact, the nom de plume adopted by Doctor Otto Grantz was the German surname, ‘Bothe’.