Jack Schaefer

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.

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.

"In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter van Tilburg Clark explores the thin line between civilization and barbarism through the story of a lynch mob that targets three innocent men, exposing a dark authoritarian impulse at work the American frontier. Set in Wyoming in 1889, a time when ranchers and cattle companies waged war with each other, Jack Schaefer's iconic Shane deploys many of the genre's most essential elements, brilliantly...

Crossfire Trail: A mysterious drifter is determined to keep a promise that he'll protect a man's widow and Wyoming ranch. But the widow doubts the man's motives; and an unscrupulous land grabber and his gunmen are sizing up the ranch for a takeover. Last stand at Saber River: An ex-Confederate cavalryman turned homesteader thinks he'll resume a quiet life in Arizona with his wife and children. But one more battle looms when he finds Union sympathizers...