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.

Returning to his home town in Montana, Powder Burns was amazed to learn that the name of the old mining town had been changed from Horse's Neck to Rainbow, and that red-haired Judith Campbell, now the largest rancher in the county, had taken over.Judith failed to recognize Powder at their first meeting, but learning who he was only one of the surprises in store for Queen Judith; for Powder owned mineral rights in most of the town, and Judith's plans to tear down the old shanties and replace them with modern brick buildings were to receive a setback ...But only a temporary one, for Judith's chief adviser, the dignified Theophilus Gregory, was in the saddle, and strongly behind headstrong Judith in her determination to make over the town and its people - whether they wanted to be made over or not.Even the arrival of Powder's gold-dredging equipment failed to stop Judith in her frantic rebuilding ... but Powder had spoken well when he warned that brick buildings were not for Horse's Neck and Rainbow, as well as the old town, was to face destruction before tempestuous Judith finally came to her senses ... 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.