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Title	:	The Ox-Bow Incident
Author	:	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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

The Ox-Bow Incident

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Paperback | Pages: 247 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 4889 Users | 440 Reviews

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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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Remember reading this in high school. Think I reread it again sometime later. Would love to reread it again.

Great, classic western about the morality of vigilante justice, concerning a murder and cattle rustling, and the question of whether the law or posse justice is the way to go.

One cannot help reading The Ox Bow Incident without thinking of the term mob mentality. This novel reminds me of a morality play disguised in a Westerns clothing, because the true essence of the novel is simply the aftermath of an event, where judgements are rendered, and individuals must live with the repercussions of those judgements. There are some minor set backs to this book. The beginning is a bit of a slow crawl, and it seems like we have the same points and conflicts retread and repeated

In the heat of the 2012 Presidential battle, mired in debates with Libertarian friends, I sought a good read about justice, society, responsibility and humanity. My father recommended this to me when I was very young... too young to appreciate or desire this novel. But as a Nevada district attorney, I suppose he had some very deep connection to the story of Nevada Justice."The Oxbow Incident" is a meditation on the rule of law, the establishment of society, and all the personality types at play

Wow, just Wow! I thought I was sitting down to read a western classic about a hanging, but what I got instead was a study of human nature, moral cowardice, and how easy it is to allow evil to happen when men believe that following a bully who chooses to ignore the facts or listen to reason gives them an excuse to do violence in the name of justice. This book may have been written in 1940, but it's descriptions of men's actions in the guise of avenging a wrong is relevant since the dawn of time

Although this masculine tale sits taller in the saddle than most other westerns, I found it an overall disappointment. Perhaps I was expecting more than anything in that genre could deliver; nevertheless, the intense description of every character and cloud was at first impressive, but soon wore heavy on this impatient reader.The moral lessons were plain and straightforward. However, the lessons are too easily seen as applying only to some past, far-away time--certainly not to us here in 2010,

Ok, honestly, I can't remember one damn thing about this book except that Sister Marie Renee made us read this in Jr. High and I hated it and wouldn't read it. Then, the night before we had to be done with it, I had a major 12-year-old nervous breakdown because I knew I could never finish it in time and was afraid of incurring nun-wrath.