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Title: Claim Number One
Author: George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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CLAIM NUMBER ONE
by
GEORGE W. OGDEN
Author of
The Duke of Chimney Butte
Trails End, Etc.
Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Made in the United States of America
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1922
Published May, 1922
Copyrighted in Great Britain
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
I. Comanche 1
II. Guests for the Metropole 9
III. Unconventional Behavior 21
IV. The Flat-Game Man 46
V. Skulkers 63
VI. The Drawing 79
VII. A Midnight Extra 104
VIII. The Governor's Son 122
IX. Double Crookedness 140
X. Hun Shanklin's Coat 154
XI. Number One 172
XII. The Other Man 188
XIII. Sentiment and Nails 206
XIV. "Like a Wolf" 219
XV. An Argument Ends 233
XVI. A Promise 255
XVII. A Plan 273
XVIII. The Strange Tent 288
XIX. Crook Meets Crook 304
XX. A Sudden Cloud 325
XXI. The
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