Jack Schaefer

• Oct-1949
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"Call me Shane." He rode into our valley in the summer of '89, 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....

• Jun-1967
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“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. Old Jake Hanlon is “ancient and craglike, weathered and withered . . . something like a worn rocky...

• Jun-1967
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• 1978
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• Jul-1981
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Originally published in 1963, Monte Walsh continues to delight readers as a Western classic and popular favorite. The novel explores the cowboy lives of Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins as they carouse, ride, and work at the Slash Y with Cal Brennan. As ...

• Jan-1988
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• Sep-1993
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Awarded a 1961 Newbery Honor, Old Ramon tells the timeless coming-of-age story of a young boy who spends a summer with an old shepherd in the Mojave Desert. He leaves his textbooks behind for real life lessons with Ramon as his mentor. He learns not ...

• Mar-2013
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Based on a Cheyenne legend, this novel holds universal appeal as it explores the theme of a man’s conflict with his culture. It is the story of how Little Bear, a Cheyenne warrior who opposes war, reconciles the conflict between his personal values...

• May-2017
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In these classic stories acclaimed author Jack Schaefer yet again captures the spirit and adventure of the Old West. First Blood, Schaefer’s follow-up to Shane, tells the tale of Jess Harker, a young stagecoach driver finding his way in this coming...

• Jun-2017
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Schaefer shares the individual stories of seven people -- rancher, sheepherder, homesteader, town settler, soldier, miner, and cowboy -- in this collection. He tells the tales as they can only be told: in the open spaces of the Old West. In these mem...

• Jun-2017
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Readers searching for courage and adventure will find just that and more in the engaging prose of Jack Schaefer in this vintage collection of Western vignettes. Exploring varied tales of life in the West, Schaefer shares the stories of exceptional ch...

• Jul-2017
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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 w...

• Sep-2017
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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 s...

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From Jack Schaefer, the author of Shane, comes Company of Cowards. This is the story of eight civil war soldiers, court-martialed and convicted of cowardice. The military gives the men a second chance and they form a ragtag group, Company Q. Shunned ...