Dodging melee attacks?

Cowboy

Mongoose
A thousand pardons if this has already been discussed to death but I couldn't find it anywhere.
The combat section states that an Evade action can be used to avoid missiles and charging attacks but what about melee attacks that aren't charges? Surely you should be able to evade any kind of melee attack. Yet, as far as I can tell, this isn't covered in the rules. (This seems like the way a character with a light weapon would avoid damage from a character with a heavy weapon rather than parrying and hoping for a better quality of success).
 
Top of page 91.

"he may choose to defend himself using Evade. However ..."

So yes it is covered in the rules.
 
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