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George Washington Ogden
Born(1871-12-09)December 9, 1871
Johnson County, Kansas
DiedMarch 31, 1966(1966-03-31) (aged 94)
Los Angeles County, California
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetary, Santa Monica, California
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreWestern novels
RelativesGeorge O. Abell (grandson)

George Washington Ogden (December 9, 1871 – March 31, 1966) was a reporter, newspaper editor, poet, and author of short stories and western novels.

Early Life[edit]

Ogden was only educated through the eighth grade, left home to work on the railroad, and then worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. He was fired from the Star, according to his grandson, because "all he could do was write"; taking the letter of his firing to the Chicago Tribune, he got hired as a reporter again.[1]

Ogden married in the 1890s and had one daughter, Ann Marie Ogden Abell (1896-1968) .[2]

Career[edit]

Ogden published regularly in pulp magazines from the 1900s through the 1930s, beginning with short stories in Everybody's Magazine, and later in Adventure and The Argosy, eventually serializing his novels in the 1920s in Western Story and Short Stories, among others. His obituary noted that he had 37 novels to his name at the time of his passing.

Three of his novels were adapted into silent films, including The Bond Boy in 1922 and The Trail Rider in 1925.

Obituary

Works[edit]

  • The Well Shooters (1914)
  • The Long Fight (1915)
  • The Rustler of Wind River (1917)
  • The Land of Last Chance (1919)
  • The Duke of Chimney Bute (serial 1919, book 1920)
  • The Flockmaster of Poison Creek (1921)
  • Trail's End (1921)
  • The Bondboy (magazine 1915, book 1922)
  • Claim Number One (serial 1915, book 1922)
  • The Baron of Diamond Tail (serial 1922, book 1923)
  • The Trail Rider: A Romance of the Kansas Range (1924)
  • White Roads (1932)[3]
  • A Man From The Badlands (1933)[4]
  • West of the Rainbow (1942)[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ George O. Abell oral history
  2. ^ Ann O. Abell at Find A Grave
  3. ^ White Roads copyright renewal registration
  4. ^ A Man From The Badlands copyright renewal registration
  5. ^ West of the Rainbow copyright renewal registration

External links[edit]

  • "George Washington Ogden". Find a Grave. June 10, 2004. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  • Works by George Washington Ogden at Project Gutenberg
  • George Washington Ogden papers at Archives West.
  • Error in Template:Internet Archive author: George Washington Ogden doesn't exist.
  • George Washington Ogden at IMDb

Category:Western (genre) writers Category:American male novelists Category:American male short story writers Category:20th-century American novelists Category:20th-century American short story writers Category:20th-century American male writers Category:20th-century American screenwriters Category:Pulp fiction writers


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