Title: The Ox-Bow incident /
Authors: Wellman, William A., 1896-1975,; Trotti, Lamar, 1900-1952,; Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982,; Andrews, Dana, 1909-1992; Quinn, Anthony, 1913-2001,; Darwell, Jane, 1879-1967,; Conoroy, Frank,; Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Year: 1943
Subjects: Mobs.; Lynching Nevada Drama.; Violence United States Drama.; Mexican Americans Nevada Drama.; Cattle stealing Nevada Drama.; Ranches Nevada Drama.; Pistol shooting.; Violence in men.; Self-preservation Drama.; Brigands and robbers United States.; Murder United States Drama.; Victims of crimes; Gunfights.; Outlaws; Lone Pine (Calif.)
Abstract: "In 1885, cattlemen Gil Carter and Art Croft travel from their small ranch to the nearby town of Bridger's Wells, Nevada, after the winter round-up. Gil is hoping to meet his sweetheart, Rose Mapen, and is infuriated when Darby, the bartender, informs him that she left town to be married. Gil's temper worsens when rancher Jeff Farnley insinuates that he and Art, as the only strangers present, may be responsible for the recent cattle rustling that has hit every rancher in the area. Gil and Farnley engage in a fistfight, which ends when Darby shatters a bottle over Gil's head. As Gil and Art are standing outside afterward, a rider rushes into the saloon. Gil and Art rejoin the crowd, which has just learned that Larry Kincaid, a well-respected local rancher, has been murdered, presumably by the rustlers. Farnley, Kincaid's best friend, is easily whipped into a frenzy by the town drunk, Monty Smith, and other bored men who insist that the perpetrators should be lynched." AFI catalog, 1941-1950.