Broken Wheels

It was an open secret around Dead Man's Gulch that the Roanoke stage line was short of just about everything except trouble-they needed rollin' stock, money and men. That was why Montana's old friend Blackie Thompson hired on. To Blackie, the challenge of running the line was like the smell of battle to a war horse. But Blackie didn't get very far. Riding into the town of Wildcat, Montana found the smoking remains of a stagecoach-and the body of Blackie Thompson … Born in Great Falls, Montana, on July 25th 1899, "Al Cody" was a pseudonym of Archie Lynn Joscelyn. Joscelyn went on to become an enormously prolific and popular writer, especially in the western field, but also authoring a number of novels in the detective and romance genres along the way. In addition to the books he wrote under his own name and that of Cody, Archie Joscelyn also used the names A A Archer, Tex Holt, Evelyn McKenna and Lynn Westland. Montana Abbott, a quiet man whose gun did the talking for him. The Westerns are set at the end of the American Civil War with the hero thrown into many gun-blazing adventures. All Cody is the pseudonym for Archie Jocelyn.