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To: ManyMoose who wrote (4214)	2/18/2006 6:33:21 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Many, I've seen all of those movies, several times, and will be watching them again. They are that good, IMO. It is funny that such a person that looked like that could write knock down, drag out, kinds of books. Good for her!!

To: ManyMoose who wrote (4214)	2/18/2006 7:11:59 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 71588

Very interesting.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (4214)	2/18/2006 7:30:24 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Jack Schaefer wrote SHANE. It was published as a paperback only originally and he sold all rights to it for $1,000 to the publisher. It became an all-time classic novel and then maybe the best western movie ever made (Alan Ladd, Jack Palance). The book is a little over 100 pages and is in the children's section of libraries. (It is written from the point of view of the child (boy)in the family). Schaefer's book is filled with what appears to me to be authentic knowledge of the old West. I made it a point to get everything else I could find that he wrote. They are mostly short stories, and while they display the same knowledge of the old West as SHANE, none of these that I read had a story to go with the knowledge. He may be similar to Thomas Heggen, who wrote MR ROBERTS just after getting out of the service in WWII. It is a classic, but Heggen was never able to write anything else.