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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. ~ "There's something about him," Mother said. "Something...dangerous..." ~ "He's dangerous all right," Father said,...but not to us..." ~ "He's like one of these here slow burning fuses," the mule skinner said. ~ "Quiet...so quiet you forget it's burning til it sets off a hell of a blow of trouble. ~ And there's trouble brewing."

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 addition, the best critical essays about Schaefer and about Shane are included to provide historical and comparative background. An interview with Jack Schaefer and an afterword written by him complete this volume.

Shane is a drifter who rides into a small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. He settles in with the Starretts, a family of homesteaders. Shane soon finds himself a reluctant part of the feud between rangers and those like the Starretts who are proving their land claims. Gun fights may look glamorous at a distance, but Shane knows them up close. The last thing he wants is another one. But Shane has a high sense of personal honor, and it leads him into a conflict he dreads. When his job is done, he rides away, alone and unfollowed. But he has changed the lives of those he met, none more than the Starrett's son Bob, from whose point of view this classic story is told.