Analysis Of Ox-Bow Incident By Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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In the Ox-Bow Incident, Walter Van Tilburg Clark shows how in the Wild West, it wasn't as just as people think it is, people killed each other and stole cattle, and whether or not they had enough information that a person was guilty, they would hang them anyways. When Sparks and Croft are discussing having seen lynchings before, they say "Ah saw mah {Sparks} own brother lynched, Mistah Croft.","They wouldn't lynch him without knowing," I {Art} said. He thought for a while before he answered that. "They made him confess," he admitted. "But they would have anyhow," he protested. "It wouldn't have done him any good not to, and confessin' and made it shortah. It was still bad, though; awful bad," he added. Ah wouldn' lahk see a a thing like that

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