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HE RODE INTO OUR VALLEY IN THE SUMMER OF 1889, A SLIM MAN, DRESSED IN BLACK. `CALL ME SHANE, ` HE SAID. HE NEVER TOLD US MORE. THERE WAS A DEADLY CALM IN THE VALLEY THAT SUMMER, A SLOW, CLIMBING TENSION THAT SEEMED TO FOCUS ON SHANE. SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A YOUNG BOY, BOB STARRETT, SHANE IS THE CLASSIC STORY OF A LONE STRANGER. AT FIRST SIGHT, THE BOY REALISES THERE IS SOMETHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THE APPROACHING MAN, BUT AS BOB GETS TO KNOW SHA...

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The spirit of Christmas is contagious and overwhelming in this charming and unpredictable holiday tale. Orphaned at thirteen, the poorly paid, patched-clothed cowhand Stubby Pringle is now nearing twenty as he looks forward to whooping it up at the Christmas dance. In true Schaefer fashion, Stubby Pringle delights readers and fills our hearts with the magic and spirit of Christmas.

This classic novel of courage and redemption introduces Jared Heath. Heath, a captain in the Union army, is stripped of rank and court-martialed for cowardice after refusing to march his men into a suicide mission. Yet he has a chance to regain his honor when he is charged with leading Company Q, a unit of misfit officers also disgraced and charged with cowardice.

The classic Western short stories in this Jack Schaefer collection explore the changing and often challenging truths found throughout the American West. The featured novella, "The Kean Land", tells the story of young Ben Hammon as he arrives in western Colorado after the death of his parents to live with his small-town lawman uncle. The drama unfolds as Ben learns the ways of the land and the people who live there.

Old Jake Hanlon sits on the edge of the mesa and looks out over miles of southwestern plain, " starts Jack Schaefer's all-ages novel Mavericks. Living in his memories, Hanlon prefers to reflect on his youth, when he lived every cowboy's dream, rather than think about the old man he has become, now labelled "a decrepit old nuisance" by the folks in town.

Originally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight readers as a Western classic and popular favorite.

The wild adventures of the old west working cowboy are re-told in this classic Western.

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A courageous young Cheyanne must fight for his life alone in the American wilderness.

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Jack Shaefer's famous cowboy story which was made into an outstanding film. The tale is told by the boy into whose family corral a mysterious stranger rode in the summer of 1889.

Shane" was made into an award-winning film that--like the novel--became a standard by which later westerns were judged. Readers who have already felt the novel's power or are approaching it for the first time, will find this edition indispensable for coming to terms with its fascinating simplicity, its richness, and its puzzles. This edition reprints the original text of the novel (in 1954 it was edited to remove words that might offend). In a...

I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn. It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. Something in father, something not of words or of actions but of the essential substance of the human spirit, had reached out and spoken to him and he had replied to it and had unlocked a part of himself to us. He was far off and unapproachabl...

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In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring the overarching themes of virtue, the human condition, and a man's search for self.

First Blood, Schaefer's follow-up to Shane, tells the tale of Jess Harker, a young stagecoach driver finding his way in this coming-of-age story.

In these memorable narratives Schaefer depicts the unique conflicts of settler life and captures the spirit of the resolute, willful, determined, and broken characters found on the Western frontier.

Published throughout the early 1950s, these stories have captured our hearts and imaginations as true classics in Western fiction and will continue to do so time and time again.