Classics Illustrated: The Ox Bow Incident (Paperback)

from SeriousGrace

The Ox-Bow Incident was first published in 1940 but its premise could have been about modern mob mentality. It is the story of a rumor and what happens when a community is whipped into a frenzied need for self-righteous justice. In Nevada someone has been rustling cattle. When two men are pinned ...

from phebj

I originally heard about this book in 2010 when I participated in my first group read on LT for Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, a book of essays about the West by Wallace Stegner. Stegner cited it as an example of a book about the real West as opposed to one about the mythical W...

from kalafish

Considered a classic western, this book is about men and their thirst for justice at whatever cost. The book takes time to get going, but along the way you get to know a few of the characters and what makes them tick. Clark's attention to detail allows for a glimpse into the scenary, the weather ...

from jopearson56

This was really quite a great book. I remember reading it for American Literature in high school, and I don't think I much cared for it -- except that I have always remembered it for its very graphic description of a hanging. Which, as it turns out, isn't after all so very graphic. But the book o...

from momeara

A good read. Two cowboys walk into the bar and quickly become entangled in a posse who are heading out of town in search of men who are suspected of theiving local cattle and murder of a local cattlmen. Although there are mixed motives for joining the posse, because they are outsiders, they fear ...