Essay: Shane’s Lot — How a 1949 Gun-Toting Loner Still Rides Through American Literature. Maria Hummel on American Iconography and the 21st Century Revival of Western Writing | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
A stranger comes to town. He is stern, quiet, with a whiff of criminality, seductive to women and men alike, his life like an arrow shooting him onward. He meets a family, he befriends a boy, he al…