- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: New Amer Library Trade (June 1978)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451518926
- ISBN-13: 978-0451518927
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
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Novel about the lynching of three innocent men on the western frontier.
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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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From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Gil and I crossed the eastern divide about two by the sun. Read the first page
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Mob justice in the Old West,
By gac1003 "gac1003" (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Ox-Bow Incident (Paperback)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark's classic novel begins like many Westerns: two ranchers, Art Croft and Gil Carter, ride into the town of Bridger's Wells. They stop at the saloon, have a few drinks after which a poker game begins followed by a fight. Things change quickly when a young man storms into town with a tale of murder and cattle rustling. Though he hasn't actually seen any of the events he's describing, the young man's tale is strong enough to insense the men in the bar. They form a lynch mob and go after the murderers and rustlers."The Ox-Bow Incident" is told through the eyes of Art Croft. From him, we see and hear Farnley who is dead set on forming the mob to exact justice; of Osgood and Davies, who both try to convince the group that justice can only be handled properly by the law; and Art himself who has doubts about the lynch mob but goes along, like every other man. This is a story about who determines what is right and wrong and how justice should be determined with all the facts instead of partial truths and one-sided ideals. It deals with the mob mentality and its consequences. Not your typical fare with a Western. Clark expertly handles the subject matter, and as I was reading, I felt as though I were part of the mob, knowing the mob is not right but powerless to do anything to stop it, swept along for the ride and the outcome. A definite classic.
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The Ox-Bow Incident,
By jessica (california) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Ox-Bow Incident (Paperback)
This book was overall and okay book. In a way it reminded me of a book called Mice and Men, there was alot of scenery in this book and the author had the same writing style. I though that this type of book was already covered in literature in high school because of the kind of book it was so i would not agree with it being put on the list
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An outrageous book,
By varun yadav (Dublin, Ca) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Ox-Bow Incident (Paperback)
Basically talking about this book is not a challenge to me because I loved this book and the plot and the ending was a key factor to that. From the beginning the characters were very truthful and it felt like that you could compare to some of the characters because this kind of thing could happen to any town. This story has a great story about a mob who takes matter of justice into its own hands. But some people were against it and some were with it. This book shows us all how matter of time can change a person's life in a matter of seconds.An emotional situation in this book was the feelings that young Tetley got out of him. Those feelings could be compared with me that we were bunch of people who just wanted to fight stones with stones and just went in too much of a hurry. I think Walter is a very good writer because of course if he wrote this book he is a brilliant man because it really exposes a man's feeling towards something even though he acts tough. Yes I would recommend any young adult to read it because this can show an outlook to a brand new life and how it can change your feelings.
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