Powder Burns

The homesteaders were fencing him in. Boss McGill looked north-and turned his herds toward Montana. But between him and his destination lay the rustlers.Only one man could help him: Powder Burns, who might have been from anywhere. It was Burns who fought Boake Queen when Queen hired a ruthless outlaw to brand-blot McGill's cows. And it was Burns who took McGill through Buzzard's Border where no man had ever been and lived to tell it. 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. The homesteaders were fencing him in. Boss McGill looked north … and turned his herds toward Montana. But between him and his destination lay the rustlers. Only one man could help him: Powder Burns, who might have been from anywhere. It was Burns who fought Boake Queen when Queen hired a ruthless outlaw to brand-blot McGill's cows.