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).