Caleb Hughes aimed to hang McAllister. He had an old grudge to settle. Besides, men would then talk about him from Canada to the Mexican border.McAllister was on the trail of a bunch of desperate horse-thieves. They had stolen his famous California horses. What's more, they had killed his neighbor back in Black Horse.Lured over the territorial line into wild, outlaw country, McAllister finds himself surrounded by renegades who want his end for something that happened a thousand miles away in another place in another time.But McAllister plans to reverse the situation-by turning himself into wolf-bait! 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). Rem McAllister -
