A Mob Murders Two Men Based on a Rumor

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A Mob Murders Two Men Based on a Rumor

In Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel The Ox-Bow Incident, an exited youth passes on a rumor that popular rancher has been murdered and his cattle stolen. Eventually an angry mob of townspeople decided they can't wait for the sheriff for fear that the ...

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