Walter Van Tilburg Clark was a Western writer but not a Westerner by birth. Born in East Orland, Maine, on 3 August 1909, he did not see the American West until he was nine. Moreover, his father and m...
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark is most widely known as the author of The Ox-Bow Incident (1940), possibly the best and most realistic cowboy novel ever written. Set in Nevada in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident im...
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