Johnstone had lived for many years in Shreveport, Louisiana, yet died in Knoxville, TN, at the age of 65. He also authored two novels under the pseudonym William Mason. His main publication series were Mountain Man, The First Mountain Man, Ashes and Eagles and his own personal favorite novel was The Last of the Dog Team (1980).
He wrote close to two hundred books in numerous genres, including suspense and horror. Johnstone started his writing career in 1970, but did not have any works published until 1979 ( The Devil's Kiss) and became a full-time writer in 1980. He later served in the Army and, upon returning to civilian life, worked in radio broadcasting for 16 years. He quit school when he was fifteen and worked in a carnival and as a deputy sheriff. His father was a minister and his mother a school teacher. William Wallace Johnstone was a prolific American author, mostly of western, horror and survivalist novels.īorn and raised in southern Missouri, Johnstone was the youngest of four children. Battered and weary, the travelers are no match for the blood-lusting, trigger-happy gang-and Preacher is unprepared to meet the one outlaw he never expected to see again.
Their odyssey across the unforgiving territory takes them through violent storms and into the sights of hostile Indians. Preacher travels with the settlers while MacCallister trails along at a distance, scouting for trouble. With the blood of good men being spilled and families being terrorized, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. The gang's latest victim was a wagon master who sought to protect his charges only to die in the dust. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet. Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce-and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun.
Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. Two of the Johnstones' most legendary heroes-the rugged mountain man known as Preacher and the Scottish clan rancher Jamie Ian MacCallister, keep the peace on the Oregon Trail in their fourth and wildest adventure yet.
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