World Premiere from the classic #WesternNovel by #JackSchaefer

Adapted and directed by Mark Pracht, author of #TheFourColorPlays

8/21–10/4, 2026

Shane, a mysterious stranger hiding a dangerous past, is offered a job as a farm hand and settles in with the Starretts, setting up a deadly showdown.

"Lo que quieres, Wilson, y lo que tendrás son dos cosas muy diferentes"
#Shane
#JackSchaefer
#Frontera
#Valdemar
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"But he was a careful man who never let thoughts about the future interfere with present business."

✒ #JackSchaefer, American author (Shane), was #BOTD 19 November 1907. #Literature

full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine ‘Jack Warner Schaefer was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known works are the 1949 novel Shane, considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America, and the 1964 children's book Stubby Pringle's Christmas.’ Wikipedia

Jack Schaefer, “The Silver Whip”
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‘I had wanted to be treated like a man and allowed to do a man’s job. Now I had got my wish – and what I had to do would take more guts than most men have’
*Collier’s*, November 1, 1952
#JackSchaefer #MattClark #WesternFiction #Westerns

I must have read this over 30 years ago - the part that sticks in my mind is #Shane’s struggle with dislodging a stubborn tree stump from Joe Starrett’s front yard 7.5/10 #JackSchaefer

#Illustration by John McCormack (ca.1939 - ca.1964)
#Illustration #illustrationarti #illustrationartists #HardieGramatky #JohnMcCormack #WesternFiction #prospector #goldprospector #JackSchaefer

full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine

‘Jack Warner Schaefer was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known works are the 1949 novel Shane, considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America, and the 1964 children's book Stubby Pringle's Christmas.’ Wikipedia full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine

Jack Schaefer (1907-1991), “Something Lost”
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‘The man and the bear had a strange bond. They shared a wild region; they had faced death together. But they were dangerous to each other. And one of them would kill the other’
*Collier’s*, August 2, 1952
#JackSchaefer

"I like a man who watches things goin' around. It means he'll make his mark some day."

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 23 April 1953, #GeorgeStevens' Western classic "Shane", based on the 1949 novel by #JackSchaefer, starring #AlanLadd and #JeanArthur, was released in the 🇺🇸

E. Rose Nelson writes Camera Obscura: MONTE WALSH https://buff.ly/411V6Hf #cameraobscura #montewalsh #jackschaefer #WilliamAFraker

"But he was a careful man who never let thoughts about the future interfere with present business."

✒ #JackSchaefer, American author (Shane), was #BOTD 19 November 1907. #Literature

The UK hardcover edition of Shane by Jack Schaefer (Andre Deutsch Limited, Second Impression, February 1955). #Shane #JackSchaefer #1950s #book #books #Western #cowboy #cowboys #coverart #cover #artwork #dustjacket #dustwrapper