Montana's Territory

The War Between the States did even worse things than pit brother against brother, friend against friend, because they were on different sides in the conflict. For when Confederate soldiers were penned up together as prisoners of war, their nerves frayed by inactivity, pal turned on pal, and violence erupted. And it took their leader, "Montana" Abbott, to restore sanity if not tranquility. 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.