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 {{Short description|American writer (1907–1991)}}
 {{For|the filmmaker|Jac Schaeffer}}
 == Early life ==

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	When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024~~}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway~~}}</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref>

	Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway}}</ref>

	Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway</ref>

	Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	As a child Schaefer was an avid reader of Zane Grey and was fascinated with the old west. He later studied American history which formed the basis of many of his westerns.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2007-04-15\|title=Lakewood Lore - Jack Schaefer\|url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|access-date=2021-01-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415052401/http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|archive-date=2007-04-15}}</ref> In 1945 he began writing fiction after hours as a way of calming down. That year the story ''Rider from Nowhere'' was published in serial form in the magazine ''Argosy''. It formed the basis of Schaefer's first novel, ''[[Shane (novel)\|Shane]]'', set in Wyoming, which was published four years later, and which was a great success.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref>		As a child Schaefer was an avid reader of Zane Grey and was fascinated with the old west. He later studied American history which formed the basis of many of his westerns.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2007-04-15\|title=Lakewood Lore - Jack Schaefer\|url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|access-date=2021-01-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415052401/http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|archive-date=2007-04-15}}</ref> In 1945 he began writing fiction after hours as a way of calming down. That year the story ''Rider from Nowhere'' was published in serial form in the magazine ''Argosy''. It formed the basis of Schaefer's first novel, ''[[Shane (novel)\|Shane]]'', set in Wyoming, which was published four years later, and which was a great success.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref>

	When he wrote Shane, Schaefer had never traveled farther west than Cleveland. The Albuquerque Journal writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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	But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	In addition to ''Shane'', seven of his other stories were made into films.<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2020-12-31\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Among those, ''First Blood'', was made into the 1953 film ''[[The Silver Whip]]'', starring [[Robert Wagner]]. Other films included ''Tribute to a Bad Man'' with [[James Cagney]], 1956, based on the short story ''Hanging’s for the Lucky''; ''Trooper Hook'', 1957, featuring [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and adapted from the story ''Sergeant Houck''; and 1964's ''Advance to the Rear'', taken from the 1957 novel ''Company of Cowards''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		In addition to ''Shane'', seven of his other stories were made into films.<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2020-12-31\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Among those, ''First Blood'', was made into the 1953 film ''[[The Silver Whip]]'', starring [[Robert Wagner]]. Other films included ''[[Tribute to a Bad Man]]'' with [[James Cagney]], 1956, based on the short story ''Hanging’s for the Lucky''; ''Trooper Hook'', 1957, featuring [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and adapted from the story ''Sergeant Houck''; and 1964's ''Advance to the Rear'', taken from the 1957 novel ''Company of Cowards''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	''[[Monte Walsh (novel)\|Monte Walsh]]'' was loosely adapted into the 1970 [[Monte Walsh (1970 film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref> and again as a 2003 [[Monte Walsh (2003 film)\|television film]] starring [[Tom Selleck]]. ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas'' was also adapted into a television film in 1978.		''[[Monte Walsh (novel)\|Monte Walsh]]'' was loosely adapted into the 1970 [[Monte Walsh (1970 film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref> and again as a 2003 [[Monte Walsh (2003 film)\|television film]] starring [[Tom Selleck]]. ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas'' was also adapted into a television film in 1978.

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	== Journalism and other career work ==		== Journalism and other career work ==
	Following his departure from Columbia University, Schaefer went to work for the United Press. In his long career as a journalist, he worked as a reporter for the United Press news agency, as editorial page editor for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and The Baltimore Sun, and as editor of The New Haven Journal-Courier.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2020-12-24\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>		Following his departure from Columbia University, Schaefer went to work for the [[United Press]]. In his long career as a journalist, he worked as a reporter for the United Press news agency, as editorial page editor for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and The Baltimore Sun, and as editor of The New Haven Journal-Courier.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2020-12-24\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

	In his career as a journalist, Schaefer wrote innumerable news stories, feature articles, and opinion columns and thousands of book/film/play reviews and editorials.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2020-12-24\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref>		In his career as a journalist, Schaefer wrote innumerable news stories, feature articles, and opinion columns and thousands of book/film/play reviews and editorials.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2020-12-24\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref>

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Adaptations: The Silver Whip

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	But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	In addition to ''Shane'', seven of his other stories were made into films.<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2020-12-31\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Among those, ''First Blood'', was made into the 1953 film ''The Silver Whip'', starring [[Robert Wagner]]. Other films included ''Tribute to a Bad Man'' with [[James Cagney]], 1956, based on the short story ''Hanging’s for the Lucky''; ''Trooper Hook'', 1957, featuring [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and adapted from the story ''Sergeant Houck''; and 1964's ''Advance to the Rear'', taken from the 1957 novel ''Company of Cowards''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		In addition to ''Shane'', seven of his other stories were made into films.<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2020-12-31\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Among those, ''First Blood'', was made into the 1953 film ''[[The Silver Whip]]'', starring [[Robert Wagner]]. Other films included ''Tribute to a Bad Man'' with [[James Cagney]], 1956, based on the short story ''Hanging’s for the Lucky''; ''Trooper Hook'', 1957, featuring [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and adapted from the story ''Sergeant Houck''; and 1964's ''Advance to the Rear'', taken from the 1957 novel ''Company of Cowards''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	''[[Monte Walsh (novel)\|Monte Walsh]]'' was loosely adapted into the 1970 [[Monte Walsh (1970 film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref> and again as a 2003 [[Monte Walsh (2003 film)\|television film]] starring [[Tom Selleck]]. ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas'' was also adapted into a television film in 1978.		''[[Monte Walsh (novel)\|Monte Walsh]]'' was loosely adapted into the 1970 [[Monte Walsh (1970 film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref> and again as a 2003 [[Monte Walsh (2003 film)\|television film]] starring [[Tom Selleck]]. ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas'' was also adapted into a television film in 1978.

Ocanoe: /* Adaptations */Fixed typo

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Adaptations: Fixed typo

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	== Adaptations ==		== Adaptations ==
	Schaefer's novel ''Shane'' was adapted into the classic 1953 [[Shane (film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Alan Ladd]], and a short-lived 1966 [[Shane (American TV series)\|television series]] starring [[David Carradine]]. When ~~he was~~ asked ~~his~~ ~~thoughts~~ on the movie version of ''Shane'', Schaefer referred to Alan Ladd's height, saying, “Yeah, I did, all except for that runt!” At a 1989 ceremony to receive an honorary doctorate from Oberlin, he said Shane was supposed to be "a dark, deadly, person."<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref> He had hoped the movie version would be played by the actor [[George Raft]], instead of Alan Ladd.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2007-04-15\|title=Lakewood Lore - Jack Schaefer\|url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|access-date=2021-01-01\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415052401/http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|archive-date=2007-04-15}}</ref>		Schaefer's novel ''Shane'' was adapted into the classic 1953 [[Shane (film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Alan Ladd]], and a short-lived 1966 [[Shane (American TV series)\|television series]] starring [[David Carradine]]. When asked whether he’d enjoyed the movie version of ''Shane'', Schaefer referred to Alan Ladd's height, saying, “Yeah, I did, all except for that runt!” At a 1989 ceremony to receive an honorary doctorate from Oberlin, he said Shane was supposed to be "a dark, deadly, person."<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref> He had hoped the movie version would be played by the actor [[George Raft]], instead of Alan Ladd.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2007-04-15\|title=Lakewood Lore - Jack Schaefer\|url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|access-date=2021-01-01\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415052401/http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|archive-date=2007-04-15}}</ref>

	But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

Ocanoe: Western Writers of America

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Western Writers of America

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	{{Short description\|American writer (1907–1991)}}		{{Short description\|American writer (1907–1991)}}
	{{For\|the filmmaker\|Jac Schaeffer}}		{{For\|the filmmaker\|Jac Schaeffer}}
	'''Jack Warner Schaefer''' (November 19, 1907 – 24 January 1991)<ref>{{cite web \|last1= \|first1= \|title=Jack Schaefer - Social Networks and Archival Context \|url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6md0x4h \|website=snaccooperative.org \|publisher= \|access-date=10 December 2022 \|language= \|date=}}</ref> was an American writer known for his [[Western (genre)\|Westerns]]. His best-known works are the 1949 novel ''[[Shane (novel)\|Shane]]'', considered the greatest western novel by the Western Writers of America,<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> and the 1964 children's book ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas''.		'''Jack Warner Schaefer''' (November 19, 1907 – 24 January 1991)<ref>{{cite web \|last1= \|first1= \|title=Jack Schaefer - Social Networks and Archival Context \|url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6md0x4h \|website=snaccooperative.org \|publisher= \|access-date=10 December 2022 \|language= \|date=}}</ref> was an American writer known for his [[Western (genre)\|Westerns]]. His best-known works are the 1949 novel ''[[Shane (novel)\|Shane]]'', considered the greatest western novel by the [[Western Writers of America]],<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> and the 1964 children's book ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas''.

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==

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	When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024~~}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway~~}}</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref>

	Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway}}</ref>

	Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For television, he co-wrote ''They Went Thataway'', an unsold [[Television pilot\|pilot]] that aired in 1960 as an episode of ''[[New Comedy Showcase]]''.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ \|title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=15 August 2019 \|website=tvobscurities.com \|publisher=Television Obscurities \|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{IMDB episode\|0659373\|episode=They Went Thataway</ref>

	Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>		Schaefer's personal favorites were ''Monte Walsh'' and ''The Canyon.''<ref>{{Cite web\|last=\|first=\|last2=\|last3=\|first3=\|last4=\|last5=\|last6=\|last7=\|last8=\|first8=\|last9=\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer; His First Novel Was 'Shane'\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-27-mn-297-story.html\|archive-url=\|archive-date=\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Los Angeles Times\|language=en-US}}</ref>

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	As a child Schaefer was an avid reader of Zane Grey and was fascinated with the old west. He later studied American history which formed the basis of many of his westerns.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2007-04-15\|title=Lakewood Lore - Jack Schaefer\|url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|access-date=2021-01-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415052401/http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|archive-date=2007-04-15}}</ref> In 1945 he began writing fiction after hours as a way of calming down. That year the story ''Rider from Nowhere'' was published in serial form in the magazine ''Argosy''. It formed the basis of Schaefer's first novel, ''[[Shane (novel)\|Shane]]'', set in Wyoming, which was published four years later, and which was a great success.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref>		As a child Schaefer was an avid reader of Zane Grey and was fascinated with the old west. He later studied American history which formed the basis of many of his westerns.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=2007-04-15\|title=Lakewood Lore - Jack Schaefer\|url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|access-date=2021-01-13\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415052401/http://www.lkwdpl.org/lore/lore147.htm\|archive-date=2007-04-15}}</ref> In 1945 he began writing fiction after hours as a way of calming down. That year the story ''Rider from Nowhere'' was published in serial form in the magazine ''Argosy''. It formed the basis of Schaefer's first novel, ''[[Shane (novel)\|Shane]]'', set in Wyoming, which was published four years later, and which was a great success.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Ohio Reading Road Trip {{!}} Jack Schaefer Biography\|url=https://www.orrt.org/schaefer/\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=www.orrt.org}}</ref>

	When he wrote Shane, Schaefer had never traveled farther west than Cleveland. The Albuquerque Journal writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		When he wrote ''Shane'', Schaefer had never traveled farther west than [[Cleveland, Ohio\|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. The ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]'' writer Ollie Reed Jr. wrote, “That Schaefer could turn out such a Western before he ever saw the West is a tribute to his dogged research, devotion to facts, and storytelling ability, all honed by his newspaper work.”<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>		Schaefer's other westerns included ''First Blood'' (1953), ''The Canyon'' (1953), ''Company of Cowards'' (1957), ''The Kean Land and Other Stories'' (1959), ''Monte Walsh'' (1963), ''Heroes Without Glory: Some Goodmen of the Old West'' (1965), and ''The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer'' (1966).<ref>{{Cite news\|last=James\|first=George\|date=1991-01-27\|title=Jack Schaefer, Author of 'Shane' And Other Westerns, Dies at 83 (Published 1991)\|language=en-US\|work=The New York Times\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/obituaries/jack-schaefer-author-of-shane-and-other-westerns-dies-at-83.html\|access-date=2021-01-13\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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	But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		But he was apparently dismayed by the TV series, saying, “Please take my name off that piece-of-crap show”.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2021-01-01\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	In addition to ''Shane'', seven of his other stories were made into films.<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2020-12-31\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Among those, ''First Blood'', was made into the 1953 film ''[[The Silver Whip]]'', starring [[Robert Wagner]]. Other films included ''Tribute to a Bad Man'' with [[James Cagney]], 1956, based on the short story ''Hanging’s for the Lucky''; ''Trooper Hook'', 1957, featuring [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and adapted from the story ''Sergeant Houck''; and 1964's ''Advance to the Rear'', taken from the 1957 novel ''Company of Cowards''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>		In addition to ''Shane'', seven of his other stories were made into films.<ref>{{Cite news\|title='SHANE' AUTHOR JACK SCHAEFER DIES AT AGE 83\|language=en-US\|newspaper=Washington Post\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/01/27/shane-author-jack-schaefer-dies-at-age-83/2b57f08e-3d98-4f37-bc21-ce48d1061a7e/\|access-date=2020-12-31\|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Among those, ''First Blood'', was made into the 1953 film ''[[The Silver Whip]]'', starring [[Robert Wagner]]. Other films included ''[[Tribute to a Bad Man]]'' with [[James Cagney]], 1956, based on the short story ''Hanging’s for the Lucky''; ''Trooper Hook'', 1957, featuring [[Joel McCrea]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]] and adapted from the story ''Sergeant Houck''; and 1964's ''Advance to the Rear'', taken from the 1957 novel ''Company of Cowards''.<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref>

	''[[Monte Walsh (novel)\|Monte Walsh]]'' was loosely adapted into the 1970 [[Monte Walsh (1970 film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref> and again as a 2003 [[Monte Walsh (2003 film)\|television film]] starring [[Tom Selleck]]. ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas'' was also adapted into a television film in 1978.		''[[Monte Walsh (novel)\|Monte Walsh]]'' was loosely adapted into the 1970 [[Monte Walsh (1970 film)\|film of the same name]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance,<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Boyle\|first=Molly\|title=Writer from nowhere: How Jack Schaefer found the West in himself\|url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/writer-from-nowhere-how-jack-schaefer-found-the-west-in-himself/article_689b1606-15e7-590b-91e5-027f431a42ef.html\|access-date=2020-12-31\|website=Santa Fe New Mexican\|language=en}}</ref> and again as a 2003 [[Monte Walsh (2003 film)\|television film]] starring [[Tom Selleck]]. ''Stubby Pringle's Christmas'' was also adapted into a television film in 1978.