Recommended reading - Monte Walsh (1963):

Monte Walsh

By Jack Schaefer.

First published 1963.
Published by University of New Mexico Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0826358578
ISBN-13: 978-0826358578

Description:

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 the West changes and their cowboy antics are challenged, the two must part ways to pursue new ways of life. Chet marries and goes on to become a successful merchant and then a politician, while Monte can only find solace in continuing the cowboy's way of life until the very end.

"Many consider Monte Walsh one of the best Westerns ever written." – True West.

Jack Schaefer was a journalist and writer known for his authentic and memorable characters set in the American West. Schaefer received the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award in 1975 and the Saddleman Award in 1986 from the Western Writers of America. His popular Western novels include Shane (1949) and Monte Walsh (1963).

Born on this day – Jack Schaefer:

Jack Schaefer

Writer

November 19, 1907 – January 1991

Credits:

Books:

Shane (1949); The Canyon (1953); The Pioneers (1954); First Blood (1954); Company of Cowards (1957); Out West (1959); Old Ramon (1960); Monte Walsh (1963); Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1966); Mavericks (1974); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964); The Big Range (1953); First Blood and Other Stories (1954); The Kean Land (1960); Tales from the West (1961); The Plainsmen (1963); The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer (1966); The Great Endurance Horse Race (1963); Heroes Without Glory (1965); Jack Schaefer And The American West (1978); Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978).

Movies and television:

Advance to the Rear (1964); Cavalcade of America (1956); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Konyakçi (1965); Monte Walsh (1970 / 2003); New Comedy Showcase (1960); Shane (1953 / 1966); Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978); Studio 57 (1957); The Silver Whip (1953); Tribute to a Bad Man (1956); Trooper Hook (1957).