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Rediscover the golden age of the Western with this collection of
four unforgettable novels of honor, adventure, and violence set
against the magnificent landscapes of the American frontier The
heroic exploits and violent struggles of the Old West come alive
once more through this one-of-a-kind collection of four thrilling
novels. Edited by Ron Hansen, this deluxe hardcover edition shows
that the 1940s and 1950s was a golden age for the Western novel. In
the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg
Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism
through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men,
exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American
frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle
companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane
deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly
filtered through a boy's perceptions. Alan Le May's The Searchers,
the basis for John Ford's cinematic masterpiece starring John
Wayne, follows the dogged quest of two men to rescue a young girl
taken prisoner by Comanche warriors. And Oakley Hall's Warlock, a
novel that anticipates the later books of Cormac McCarthy and Larry
McMurtry, casts the battle for control of a southwestern outpost as
a bloody saga pitting a marauding gang of cowboys and rustlers
against the town's defenders, led by the legendary gunslinger Clay
Blaisedell. All four novels were memorably adapted for the screen,
and their gripping stories--told with brisk narrative energy,
psychological depth, and laconic humor--have contributed
unforgettably to the Western's enduring legacy in American culture.
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Ox-Bow Incident (Paperback)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark; Illustrated by Norman Nodel
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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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