A Breed of Men

Mart Storm cantered through the long New Mexico evening in a land where a man expects guitar music and the smiles of beautiful, hot-blooded women.They came for him in the half-light. One of them knocked him out of the saddle with a single shot, then another fired point-blank to blow his brains out.But the light was bad. The bullet no more than ripped along the parting in his hair, creasing his skull. The devil, as the saying goes, looks after his own!7th in the blazing cattlemen saga which in 1972, the Daily Mirror said of Matt Chisholm: "...has one of the biggest world sales of any author - seven million in eleven countries have bought his tales..." 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).