The Cheyenne Trail

Joe Blade was hunting for the men who had murdered his mother and father. All their lives Cy Hartman and Carl Roe had concealed their guilty secret-and grew rich and powerful on it. When Blade went against them they hired the best killers to bring him down. They finally cornered him in Cheyenne. At the end of a trail of death, they wondered if they'd bitten off more than they could chew. And when Charity Clayton came on the scene, they choked. Peter Christopher Watts was born in London, England in 1919 and died on Nov. 30, 1983. He was educated in art schools in England, then served with the British Amy in Burma from 1940 to 1946.Peter Watts, the author of more than 150 novels, is better known by his pen names of "Matt Chisholm" and "Cy James". He published his first western novel under the Matt Chisholm name in 1958 (Halfbreed). He began writing the "McAllister" series in 1963 with The Hard Men, and that series ran to 35 novels. He followed that up with the "Storm" series. And used the Cy James name for his "Spur" series.Under his own name, Peter Watts wrote Out of Yesterday, The Long Night Through, and Scream and Shout. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction books, including the very useful nonfiction reference work, A Dictionary of the Old West (Knopf, 1977). The adventures of JOE BLADE-tough, tender and temperamental. Slow to anger, fast with a gun and no slouch with women. A man tempered by the West, dangerous living and a perpetual gamble with death.From the author who has given us the Storm Family Cattlemen Saga, Sam Spur and McAllister.