In the summer of 1889, a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley, where he joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher, and where he changes the lives of a young boy and his parents.
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ISBN:9780803241459 (hard)
ISBN:0803241453 (hard)
ISBN:9780803291423 (pbk.)
ISBN:0803291426 (pbk.)
Physical Description:xviii, 432 pages ; 21 cm. print
Publisher:Lincoln :University of Nebraska Press,[1984]
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-432).
Formatted Contents Note:
Historical and biographical background. Clash of frontiers : a historical parallel to Jack Schaefer's Shane / Chuck Rankin -- Jack Schaefer / Gerald Haslam -- Shane / Jack Schaefer -- The novel : essays in evaluation and interpretation. An interview with Jack Schaefer / Henry Joseph Nuwer -- Growing up with the American West : fiction of Jack Schaefer / Fred Erisman -- The Western writer : Jack Schaefer's use of the Western frontier / Robert Mikkelsen -- Settlement waves and coordinate forces in Shane / James C. Work -- Jack Schaefer : the evolution of pessimism / Michael Cleary -- The making of Shane : a story for all media / Michael T. Marsden -- The film : essays in criticism. Introduction / James C. Work and A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- Shane : New York Times film review / Bosley Crowther -- Shane : Magill's survey of cinema review / Charles Albright, Jr. -- Shane : review / Pauline Kael -- Shane and Hud : two stories in search of a medium / James K. Folsom -- Savior in the saddle : the sagebrush testament / Michael T. Marsden -- The Olympian cowboy / Harry Schein ; translated by Ida M. Alcock -- A new direction / Jack Schaefer.
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