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Phil Kimbrough was a wealthy easterner who had come west on a hunting trip. Finding the country to his liking, he stayed and purchased what was now the largest ranch in the back-country. He lived like a feudal lord, and when he needed a lady, he went after the one who was already promised to Ed Sands. Sands had walked away in bitter disappointment, but never interfered with Phil and Nora’s marriage. That is, until Nora came to his cabin sobbing. There was a red welt across her cheekbone, and one of her eyes was badly swollen. A jealous and suspicious man, Kimbrough had accused his wife of seeing Sands – and when she denied it, he tried to beat a confession out of her. Sands swore he’d get the whip hand over Kimbrough and that one day Kimbrough would curse the day he laid eyes on Sands. . . on Wyoming. . . and on Nora. In 1951, eminent editor and critic, Burton Rascoe, wrote of Joseph Chadwick.