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.