Archie Lynn Joscelyn was a prolific American Western novelist and pulp-fiction writer whose career spanned from the 1920s into the 1960s.

Began publishing Western short stories in pulp magazines during the 1920s.
Wrote nearly 200 short stories and more than 200 novels according to several bibliographic sources.
Also wrote mystery novels and serialized fiction.
Later served as president of the Montana Institute of the Arts.

Joscelyn published under several pen names:

Al Cody
Tex Holt
A. Archer (or A. A. Archer)
Lynn Westland
Evelyn McKenna

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Books as Archie Lynn Joscelyn:

The Golden Bowl (1931)
The King of Thunder Valley (1936)
Death’s Bright Angel (1950)
Stardance Post (1950)
Renegade Scout (1954)
Trappers’ Rendezvous (1954)
High Prairie (1958)
Sheriff of Red Wolf
Freeze-Out Creek
Forbidden Frontier
Guns of Yesterday
Gunsmoke Holiday
Outlaw

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Collectible Books Values

Common paperback Westerns – $5–20
Hardcover library editions – $15–40
First editions without dust jacket – $20–60
First editions with original dust jacket – $75–200+
Scarce early 1930s editions – $150–500+ (in excellent condition)

Collectors generally seek:

The Golden Bowl (1931)
The King of Thunder Valley (1936 first edition)