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.