Three years later, on October 31, 1864, the U.S. After the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, however, the population in the region soared it grew so rapidly that on March 2, 1861, Nevada gained recognition as an autonomous territory. sovereignty, the area gradually began to prosper, luring in settlers who wished to try their luck in agriculture or cattle-raising. Included was much of the land that would later comprise the state of Nevada. With the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired 1.2 million square miles of western territory. Occasionally Spanish missionaries and Hudson Bay Company fur traders would traverse its plains, but it wasn’t until the 1830s and ’40s that American settlers and gold seekers began to cross the land en route to California. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the land now known as Nevada was nothing more than a barren region sparsely inhabited by American Indians. Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place Nevada in the 1800s
Of the books Clark has penned, many believe The Ox-Bow Incident to be one of the best examples of the unique relationship that Clark shared with his surroundings. It would be an affinity he would constantly return to throughout the course of his life, both physically as well as in his writings. From the moment his family moved to Reno, Nevada, in 1917, the eight-year-old Clark felt an immense appreciation for this region commonly known as the Great Basin. A novel set in Nevada during the spring of 1885 published in 1940.Īfter hearing the news that one of the local cowhands has been shot, several townspeople form a posse and set out on their own to find those responsible.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was WrittenĪlthough Walter Van Tilburg Clark was born into a family of academics, he was raised in an environment notorious for its lack of civilized behavior.
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