Monte Walsh
Published on 15. August 2017
552 pages
978-0-8263-5858-5 (ISBN)
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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.
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Jack Schaefer
Monte Walsh
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08/2017
University of New Mexico Press
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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).
Marc Simmons is a historian and the author of over forty books, among them New Mexico: An Interpretive History and Coronado's Land (both by UNM Press).
Marc Simmons is a historian and the author of over forty books, among them New Mexico: An Interpretive History and Coronado's Land (both by UNM Press).
