George Washington Ogden (1871-1966) was an American novelist. His works include: Land of Last Chance (1919), Duke of Chimney Butte (1920), Trail's End (1921), Flockmaster of Poison Creek (1921), Bondboy (1922) and Claim Number One (1922). "So John Mackenzie had put his foot upon the road. This after he had reasoned it out as a mathematical problem, considering it as a matter of quantities alone. There was nothing in school-teaching at sixty dollars a month when men who had to carry a rubber stamp to sign their names to their checks were making fortunes all around him in sheep. "