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An interesting story of gun shooting, courageous acts and love as Jerry Lambert, the Duke endeavors to look after the farmstead of the beautiful and alluring Vesta Philbrook from light-fingered fellows and other law breakers. The Duke of Chimney Butte consists of the following chapters: The All-in-One; Whetstone, the Outlaw; An Empty Saddle; “And Speak in Passing”; Feet upon the Road; Allurements of Glendora; The Homeliest Man; The House on the Mesa; A Knight-Errant; Guests of the Boss Lady; Alarms and Excursions; The Fury of Doves; “No Honor in Her Blood”; Notice Is Served; Wolves of the Range; Whetstone Comes Home; How Thick Is Blood?; The Rivalry of Cooks; The Sentinel; Business, and More; A Test of Loyalty; The Will-o’-the-Wisp; Unmasked; Use for an Old Paper; “When She Wakes Up”; Oysters and Ambitions; and Emoluments and Rewards. George W. Ogden was born on December 9, 1871 in Johnson County, Kansas and died on March 31, 1966 in Los Angeles County, California. He was the author of a number of books such as Custodian of Ghosts. The first of its pages opens with the Bad Lands in the Little Missouri appears in immense whirl, white, from afar, as a cold river in the grayish hills. At its edges, there are paddles on the tiny capes, which overflow in June when the mountain streams are set free and the cottonwoods enlarge. Rain pours to the ground but scarcely in the summer. In winter, the wind blows the snow into rocky valleys; buttes, with pinnacles flattened by the flow of the old, creation times, disrupt the somnolent recurrence of hill after hill. But to the inhabitants in a land in the olden times of the market of earning an income out of what it has to give, its marvels are no more astonishing, its burdens no more atypical.