| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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Book Review

The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark. By Jackson J. Benson. (Reno: University of Nevada Pres, 2004. xviii + 426 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.)

In 1964, when the Western History Association and the Western Literature Association were just getting started, Walter Van Tilburg Clark was one of the big names. With Frederick Manfred, Vardis Fisher, and Frank Waters, he completed what for scholars was the "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" of western writing. The other three, one should note, had published much more than Clark—he had only three books out, The Ox-Bow Incident (New York, 1940), The City of Trembling Leaves (New York, 1945), and The Track of the Cat (New York 1949)—and of these, only the first and last were taken seriously. City was noticed, barely, as autobiographical and youthful. So Clark's reputation rested on a couple of books and a few stories, but on this slim output he was as solid as scripture.

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