The Ox-Bow Incident - Hardcover

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg

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ISBN 10: 0844600601 ISBN 13: 9780844600604

Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1973

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The murder of a cowboy sends a vigilante group on a frenzied hunt to track down the killer

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About the Author:

Wallace Stegner's many books include Crossing to Safety, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Angle of Repose.

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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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