The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography Of Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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 (American Association of University Professors), 215, 257 A-bomb, 166, 212 Abrams, Euphemia Murray (Clark’s mother), 3–4, 10, 12, 226, 305, 310, 323  (American Civil Liberties Union), 257, 301, 303 “Admission Day” (unpublished) (Clark), 265, 268, 312 “Alf Doten in Como” (article) (Clark), 334, 353 “Ambrose, the Chess Playing Poodle” (Clark), 130 “American Scene, The” ( program), 304 Andreasen, Clint, 155 Andrews, Dana, 107 “Angel and the Judge, The” (working novella) (Clark), 212 animal metaphors, Clark’s use of, 16–17, 82–83, 123–24, 137–40, 365–66 “Anonymous, The” (Clark), 165, 187 “Answer, The” (poem) (Jeƒers), 38 Appell, George, 280–81 Arthurian legends, 8–9 Atlantic Monthly, The, 81, 104 Austin, Nev., 22, 41, 89 Baker, Susan, 95 basketball, Clark’s love of, 13–14, 29, 53, 60–62, 161, 185, 191, 239, 298–300 “Bear, The” (Faulkner), 170, 345 Beebe, Lucius, 152–53, 266 “Benedict Morales’ Wife” (poem) (Clark), 94–95 Bennett, John, 54, 58 Best, Katie, 155 Bester, Professor, 214 Big Bonanza mine, 151 Big Sky, The (Guthrie), 77, 353 “Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway), 86 Blackboard Jungle, The (Hunter), 319 “Blood on the Saddle” (song), 57 Bluestone, George, 107–8, 194, 248–49 Bonanza ( show), 149 Booth, Libby C., 13 Boston Daily Globe, The, 111–12 Boyle, Kay, 364 › 415 ‹« index » 20-unv002.index.3 6/29/04 4:44 PM Page 415 Brashear, Charles, 293–96, 297 Brewer, Willy, 299 Brier, Jesse, 260–61, 274 Brophy, Robert, 35, 37 Brown, Geoƒrey, 254–55, 259–60 Brown, Mackay, 240–41, 255, 257, 271 Brown, Mark, 259–60 Brown, Mrs. Hugh, 368–69 Brown, Walter, 6–8, 235, 239–40, 254, 259–60, 271–72, 274, 283–84, 314 Browning, Robert, 94 Bucco, Martin, 257 “Buck in the Hills, The” (Clark), 83–87, 131, 163, 392 Bulette, Julia, 148–49, 230–31, 318 Bulletin of Bibliography, 163 Cage, John, 318 Call of the Wild, The (London), 82 Caples, Robert Cole: art colony at Indian Springs, 104–5; and City of Trembling Leaves, The, 14–17, 21–23; and Clark, friendship with, 9, 14–18, 20–26, 98, 237, 307, 310–11, 330–33, 385; and Clark and Pyramid Lake, 15, 20, 24–25, 41, 279–80, 287–88, 330–31; with Clark in Indian Springs, 104–6; with Clark in Virginia City, 98, 99, 154; Clark’s letters to, 316–21, 325–27, 329–33, 336, 338, 363–65, 366–68, 373–76, 377–82, 384–89; and the desert, 21–22, 26–27; early life, 19–20; enlistment in navy, 26; and fifth wife Rosemary, 26–27, 307; illness , 366; move to Connecticut, 27; and Native Americans, 15, 17–18, 21, 24, 328, 329–30; perfectionism of, 24, 27; portrait work, 20–21, 23–24, 93; Potter and His Children, The: A Stone Age Fable, 17, 27, 364, 388; retrospective exhibition, University of Nevada, Reno, 333, 353; and turtles, as totem between him and Clark, 16–17, 319, 331–32; voice/character of, 332–33 Caples, Rosemary, 26–27, 307 Carlin, Jules, 271 Carmel, Calif., 30–31, 38–40, 251 Carson City, Nev., 145–46, 147 Cather, Willa, 77, 159 Cawdor (Jeƒers), 82 Cazenovia, N.Y., 51, 52–53, 91–92, 96, 313; Ox-Bow Incident movie showing at, 105, 107–8 Cazenovia Central School, 51, 53–67, 100, 108–9 Cerf, Bennett, 72, 305 Cervantes, Miguel de, 70–71, 74, 75 Cheever, John, 165 chess, 15, 47–48, 58, 63, 130, 161, 271, 325 Chicago Sunday Tribune, 162–63 Chism, David (nephew), 47, 130, 365, 369 Chism, John (brother-in-law), 310, 323, 384–85 Chism, Miriam (Clark’s sister). See Clark, Miriam (sister) Chollar Mansion, Virginia City, 153–54 Christgau, John, 297–300 City College of New York, 3, 51 City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 301 City of Trembling Leaves, The (Clark): autobiographical nature of, xv, 14–17, 21–23, 44, 113–16; bringing sacred and profane together, 120–23, 125; commercial failure of, 126, 137; connection with work of D.H. Lawrence, 119, 127; description of Reno in, 12–13; disappointment with, 111–13, 305; form, 112, 117, 123–24; influences, 8–9, 111, 124–25; Laxalt introduction to, 156–57; love aƒairs in, 118–19; as non-Western novel, 136; publication, 109; settings, 319; “Sweet Promised Land of Nevada, The” (poem in), 368, 390–92, 414–415n390–92; and synthesis of arts, 117–18; and turtles, 16–17, 331–32; writing of, 105, 109–10...