One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Jack Shaefer's famous cowboy story which was made into an outstanding film. The tale is told by the boy into whose family corral a mysterious stranger rode in the summer of 1889.



Nobody knew who Shane was, or why he was travelling. He rode into a Wyoming homesteader's corral in the summer of 1889 and settled for a while with the Starrett family.

Young Bob Starrett tells the classic story of that summer and fall, and the quiet stranger who kept his well-oiled Colt in his saddle-roll, but could use it to deadly effect when the need arose.