Book of the Week: The Devil Gun, by J.T. Edson

I recently enjoyed another western novel, written in 1968 called "The Devil Gun" by J.T. Edson. I had never heard of the author (because his series were published in the decade I was born), and I've always had an affinity for cowboys...(and a past-life experience from Tombstone) thus, enjoying Western novels, although this was connected more to the Civil War. The book featured a Union officer going rogue to prevent a slaughter of innocents when a repeating gun was being given to native Americans for a purposeful brutal massacre. It also features Texas Light Calvary captain, who was more on the Confederate side, but realized the rogue Union soldier was there to save people.  This book was very enjoyable and had those two great main characters! (Apparently it's part of a series)  5 of 5 stars

OVERVIEW: It was the deadliest weapon in the West--a gun that could down a whole regiment, a whole Indian tribe of a whole town without even trying. They called it the Devil Gun.

Captain Dusty Fog of the Texas Light Cavalry had orders to capture that gun from a pair of Union Army fanatics--and out to stop him was the entire strength of the war-crazy Indian nations. The odds were not good. But Dusty had no choice--at stake were the lives of every man, woman and child in Texas.