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Jack Schaefer Books in Order

Jack Schaefer has written 21 books, published between 1949 and 1978. The first book is Shane (1949) and the newest is Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1949–1978
Pages on record
2,090 in 10 of 21 books
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Shane (1949) is the novel that defines Jack Schaefer (1907-1991), an American writer of Westerns. The Western Writers of America rate Shane the greatest Western novel. Schaefer's best-known children's book is Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1964). The catalogue holds 21 books from Shane to Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978), including The Canyon (1953), Company of Cowards (1957) and Old Ramon (1960). Cowboys, frontier life and stagecoach lines appear among the subjects.

How many Jack Schaefer books are there?

Jack Schaefer has 21 books, released between 1949 and 1978.

Jack Schaefer Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Jack Schaefer books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Canyon by Jack Schaefer (1953)
  2. Cover of First Blood and Other Stories by Jack Schaefer (1954)
  3. Cover of The Pioneers by Jack Schaefer (1954)
  4. Cover of Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer (1957)
  5. Cover of Old Ramon by Jack Schaefer (1960)
  6. Cover of Monte Walsh by Jack Schaefer (1963)
  7. Cover of Stubby Pringle's Christmas by Jack Schaefer (1964)
  8. Cover of The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer by Jack Schaefer (1966)
  1. 1
    Shane1949 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1949160
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  2. 2
    The Big Range1953 · confirmed 2/4
    1953–
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  3. 3
    The Canyon1953 · 144 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1953144
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  4. 5
    The Pioneers1954 · 174 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1954174
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  5. 6
    First Blood1954 · confirmed 2/4
    1954–
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  6. 7
    Company of Cowards1957 · confirmed 2/4
    1957–
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  7. 8
    Out West1959 · confirmed 2/4
    1959–
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  8. 9
    The Kean Land1960 · confirmed 2/4
    1960–
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  9. 10
    Old Ramon1960 · 102 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1960102
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  10. 11
    Tales from the West1961 · confirmed 2/4
    1961–
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  11. 12
    The Great Endurance Horse Race1963 · confirmed 2/4
    1963–
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  12. 13
    The Plainsmen1963 · confirmed 2/4
    1963–
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  13. 14
    Monte Walsh1963 · 442 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1963442
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  14. 15
    Stubby Pringle's Christmas1964 · 48 pages · confirmed 2/4
    196448
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  15. 16
    Heroes Without Glory1965 · confirmed 2/4
    1965–
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  16. 17
    The Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer1966 · 520 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1966520
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  17. 18
    Adolphe Francis Alphonse Bandelier.1966 · confirmed 2/4
    1966–
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  18. 19
    Mavericks1974 · confirmed 2/4
    1974–
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  19. 20
    Jack Schaefer And The American West1978 · 174 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1978174
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  20. 21
    Conversations with a Pocket Gopher1978 · 126 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1978126
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Jack Schaefer books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

21 books

21 Jack Schaefer titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jack Schaefer books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 21 Jack Schaefer books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Jack Schaefer

Start with Shane (1949), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jack Schaefer book?

Conversations with a Pocket Gopher (1978) is the newest Jack Schaefer book released so far.

Is there a new Jack Schaefer book coming?

No next Jack Schaefer book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Jack Schaefer at a glance

Died
Jack Schaefer died in 1991, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Jack Schaefer on record dates from 1978.
Release pace
Jack Schaefer books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,090 pages across the 10 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 167 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jack Schaefer books, 10 of 21, were published in the 1960s.

What the Jack Schaefer books are about

11 of the 21 Jack Schaefer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: westerns is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.