Montana Abbott

Montana Abbott had tested his courage on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, sharpened his killer instincts in savage hand-to-hand fighting and had seen enough slaughter to last him forever. But he had promised to drive his brother's cattle to Missouri and knew he'd have to use all his lethal skills to get back alive. For the trail was held by hostile Indians, who'd had sooner butcher a white man as a cow, and outlaws who had killed for so long, they enjoyed it. Montana figured that if there was any dying to be done, he'd take a lot of men with him. 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.

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.

Forsman had had more than his fair share of trouble. His partner had bushwhacked him, taken his gold and his wife and left him for dead. Then he met Montana Abbott, a quiet man whose gun did the talking for him. When Forsman's enemies started gunning for him, Montana fought back. And when Montana fights, a whole lot of people get killed. 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.

Technically at least, there was a truce if not peace between white man and red. Therefore the man riding along on the big bay cayuse was not prepared for the curdling war whoops which split the air in a frightening cadence. When Montana Abbott saw a whole band of Indians attacking two lone white men, he decided he would have to imitate a whole regiment to scare them off. And that was only the start of his problems … 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.

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.

Montana had bought some grazing land on the wide-open plains of his home state. All he needed now was to find a herd of good beef cattle-short of horn, heavy with meat-and settle in for the good life of a ranching man. So with a poke of gold in his saddle bags, Montana headed out across the barren, sun-baked tableland-toward the lush, green valleys of the West.But he hadn't gotten far before he was staring down the muzzle of a forty-five-centered on his chest at point-blank range. It was the gun of a hardcase outlaw, a desperate man with enemies at his back-and he needed Montana's horse for the long trail ahead.That was only the start of his troubles-for Montana was heading into land claimed by one of the most ruthless cattle barons in the whole western Territory. Before he knew it, Montana was being stalked by a hard-bitten crew of killers. And now that he'd lost his horse, it was a sure bet he'd lose his life. 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.

The blast of six-guns was a sound Montana Abbott was used to. But even he wasn't ready for the violence and smell of death that he found around the new railroad in the Black Hills. The coming of the iron horse had coincided with a gold strike, and the two events had changed everybody's lives. Greed wore a six-gun-and strangers weren't welcome. Before he know it, Montana was in the middle of a shoot-out deadly enough to be his last. 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.

Every killer in the West was heading to town. It was gold they were after. And every gunslick, braggart and bandit in town, Helena quickly became known as Last Gulch. Montana Abbott could smell blood in the air. His gun sense told him to move on. But when he got tangled up with a beautiful wildcat woman, he decided to take the gamble to stay. Trouble was, a greedy outlaw with a gun was betting against him-and the stakes were in blood. 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.

Montana Abbott had seen too much blood-running in his day to tangle with any more trouble. But assassination from ambush was not something he could look away from. There's an old Western saying that "the tail dies at sundown"-meaning that no matter when a rattlesnake is killed, it never fully expires until the setting of the sun. And Montana knew that that drunken killer would strike again! 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.

It was a dreadful plan.McMahon's proposal, when first outlined, had shocked his men. There might be hitches in working so massive a scheme, but there was a reasonable chance it could be pulled off.The results were foreseeable. Thousands of cattle, bunched and running blindly, rampaging through the streets could move as devastatingly as a prairie fire.Rambo was slated to become, literally, a ghost town. 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.