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The Ox-Bow Incident

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 4889 Users | 440 Reviews

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Title	:	The Ox-Bow Incident
Author	:	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 247 pages
Published	:	April 27th 2004 by Modern Library (first published 1940)
Categories	:	Fiction. Westerns. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Novels. American

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Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.

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Original Title:	The Ox-Bow Incident
ISBN:	0812972589 (ISBN13: 9780812972580)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America Nevada(United States)

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It took a while to get going, but the last half of the book, after the set up and up until about halfway through the journey to find the "guilty party", was really good and gripping. Solid Western about mob justice.

The inhabitants of a ranching community get up a posse to go after a band of rustlers who are thought to have stolen cattle and committed a murder. The small number of men who try to act reasonably and thoughtfully are easily swept aside by those who are ruled by their passions, leading to disastrous results.Walter Van Tilburg Clark is a wonderful writer who has produced a powerful novel that succeeds in every way. His simple, evocative language brings the Old West to life. His characters speak

This is an excellent novel. Clark is especially good at concise descriptions of characters that are nevertheless surprisingly revealing and effective. His characters speak believably, and he describes scenes well. And he evokes the setting (small town Nevada, near the Sierras) as only someone who has experienced it could evoke it.The first half of the novel is a bit on the slow side. People seem to have a hard time making up their minds and there's lots of back and forth amongst the town-folk

* weak on plot, strong on dialogue, philosophy, etc, December 14, 2004 *I would imagine that this book was more powerful when it was first published back in 1940. But today, the plot seems very predictable, with bits and pieces falling into place too neatly all along the way. Nothing comes as any real surprise, including the ending.The book is worth reading, though, for its philosophical dialogue and its interesting look into the minds of true-to-life characters with varying points of view on

I read this at the suggestion of my Dad and I really enjoyed it. The book takes place in the Old West and it is about the dangers of mob law and a lesson I think we could all benefit from even in today's world when the media often decides people are guilty of crimes before they have a chance to state their case in a court of law. It was beautifully written and I highly recommend it.

Assuming you had some reason for doing so, you could dig up all kinds of critical commentary claiming that Walter Van Tilburg Clark's Western classic "The Ox-Bow Incident" transcends the genre. "Transcends the genre." What does that mean? That's one of those dumb things critics like to say when they accidentally like something they're not supposed to. "Wait a minute, this is really good. It can't be Western/scifi/horror/etc.; therefore, it (music swells) TRANSCENDS THE GENRE!!!!" Nonsense. "The

Ostensibly an ordinary western about murder and cattle rustling in Nevada the year 1885 , many miles outside the city of Reno around the tiny settlement, Bridger's Wells a cow town, with a vengeful posse tracking down the guilty parties. You would be wrong...this is so much more, what is justice and the requirements needed in order to achieve that elusive goal. This novel from 1940 and the Henry Fonda film version made in 1943, are a rare occurrence when both the book and the movie become