The Ox-Bow Incident (novel)

The Ox-Bow Incident
First edition
AuthorWalter Van Tilburg Clark
GenreWestern
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1940
Pages309

The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1940 western novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark in which two local cattlemen are drawn into a lynch mob to find and hang three men presumed to be rustlers and the killers of a local man. It was Clark's first published novel.

In 1943, the novel was adapted into an Academy Award–nominated movie of the same name, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan.[1]

  1. ^ "The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)". www.filmsite.org. Retrieved 2022-12-11.