Old West (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Bausch
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1950
- Setting: Somewhere in the United States, probably the West
- Principal Characters: Joey Starrett, Shane, The Right Reverend Bagley
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Violence, Storytelling, Heroes or heroism, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Westerns, Guns
- Locales: West (U.S.)
The Story
Joey Starrett is more than eighty years old, and has been telling a version of the story of Shane for many years. The film Shane came out in 1953, three years after Joey narrates his story. Joey's version is a correction of the well-known story. What follows is the real story of Shane, told by the only living witness of the famous gunfight dramatized by Alan Ladd and Jack Palance. It did not happen that way, Joey reveals in Richard Bausch's “Old West.” First of all, Shane came back to the valley twelve years after he rode out of it, wounded, with little...
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