The principal theme throughout Schaefer's fiction is the loss of Western frontier values to the civilizing influences of the East. Although Schaefer recognizes that this change was inevitable, he regrets the displacement of the rugged characters and credos of the frontier. In his best-known novel, Shane, the title character is a gunslinger who struggles desperately to conform to the settled, domesticated life of a farmer.
In Monte Walsh (1963), Schaefer's most ambitious novel, a skilled cowboy is first constrained and.....
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