The way in which the chapters are formatted, with every chapter almost being a self contained story, gives the reader a sense of scope and allows the book to easily skip around the life of Monte Walsh. I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. Best book I've read since Lonesome Dove. Louis L'amour, Zane Gray, and Jack Schaeffer were among his favorites. Highest recommendation. I Highly recommend reading this book. Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Monte Walsh is older cowboy facing the final days of the Old West era. In the book Monte Walsh you will see the struggles of a young cowboy who faces the world trying to change his fate. For a decade they are unbeatable and inseparable, working as trail hands throughout the West until finally settling with Cal Brennan’s Slash Y. So, finally at age 61 I'm getting around to Monte Walsh. In doing so, he also documents the brief but brilliant flowering of the 'cowboy' epoch, ending all too soon with the coming of the automobile and the fencing of the ranges. Cowboy can ride down to Texas, up to Canada and back again and get paid for it. This is the best western book I have ever laid hands on. your own Pins on Pinterest It felt like it was going for the stereotypical innocence of the west. For a decade they are unbeatable and inseparable, working as trail hands throughout the West until finally settling with Cal Brennan’s Slash Y. First published in 1963, Monte Walsh is considered by many to be one of the great classic Westerns. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Schaefer, Jack com ótimos preços. January 1st 2003 At the Slash Y, they meet an old friend, Shorty Austin, another cowhand and bronco buster. We see Monte and his fellow cowboys at Slash Y go through the ups and downs of ranch life in the old west and really get to know. However its pretty dull, you are interested in the character and his life but you get just glimpses, other then him getting older there is no overall narrative. My mind's eye can easily see him relaxed in his old leather rocker, coffee cup in one hand and a paperback western in the other. He and his friend Chet Rollins, another longtime cowhand, work on cattle ranches, preferring to do "nothing that can't be done from a horse". As the West begins to change, however—the automobile replacing the horse, the herds breaking up—the two friends part ways. novel of the 19th and 20th century American ranching west (cows, horses, cowboys) I've read. The song played over the opening credits is "The Good Times Are Comin' " by Mama Cass, with music and lyrics by John Barry and Hal David.[1]. This a wonderful novel telling the story of likable cowboy Monte Walsh and his faithful friend Chet Rollins in a series of vignettes that can be humorous, exciting, or touching. Monte considers the offer which includes a significant weekly salary and all expenses paid, but decides the work is too degrading and refuses. An eastern company is taking over the western free-range society and fewer cowboys are making a living. [ Instead it is a story of the decline and eventual disappearance of the free ranging American cowboy, a species increasingly endangered by barbed wire fences, railroads, industrialized ranching, and gasoline engines from 1872 - 1913. Horse Sense & Healing program is designed for veterans (and first responders) suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – or as we like to call it, PTSI – post traumatic stress injury. Remember Rawhide, with Clint Eastwood? He rides off into the "New West". TOM SELLECK grew so attached to the horse he rode in movie westerns QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER and LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER he spent thousands shipping … Monte Walsh, it’s a real favorite of mine because it’s about the coming of wire, the end of the cowboy era, and how it affects these different characters in many different ways.” L.-r.: Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Jeff Osterhage co-starred as Tyrell, Tell and Orrin Sackett in the 1979 mini-series The Sacketts, which was adapted by Jim Byrnes from Louis L’Amour’s best- selling novel. ', Full of memorable characters and scenes. In the beginning you are introduced to a skinny 16 year old that works for his unappreciative step dad until one day Monte finally had enough and ran away with nothing to show for himself and very little of a plan. Monte has a long-term relationship with an old flame, prostitute and saloon girl Martine Bernard, who suffers from tuberculosis. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the Old West. A 2003 made-for-TV remake also called Monte Walsh was set in Wyoming and directed by Simon Wincer. A wild west roundup show owner, Colonel Wilson, sees him ride the bronco to a halt and offers him a job to perform as "Texas Jack Butler star cowboy, bronco buster and all-around wild man of the west". But this isn't really a Western. Through Join-Up® and other equine-assisted activities, the Horse Sense & Healing program teaches participants to learn to regulate their emotions and return to their pre-war behavioral selves. It is told through the life of Monte Walsh, an old time horseman and cow puncher, who never met a man he feared, a horse he wouldn't ride, or a town he wouldn't hooraw, although he would gallop away in terror from any woman with matrimony on her mind. It is at times exciting, at others it is funny and at all times it is authentic. By the end of the book, I felt like I had really witnessed Monte's life unfold before my eyes and the ending brought tears to my eyes. It is told through the life of Monte Wa. At Chet's funeral, Cal tells Monte that The Slash Y Ranch has closed leaving Monte out of work. “Nobody sits a horse like Monte Walsh,” said the ranch boss in the opening moments of the Tom Selleck version of the western, “Monte Walsh.” The writing is like magic. There were things I liked about this book and others I did not. I cried at the end. Goes through his entire life in glimpses. I'm not usually a Western kind of person. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. One of the best (the best?) [2] A positive notice came from critic Roger Ebert, who remarked that the production was "as lovely a Western as I've seen in a long time."[3]. There's no doubt about that. He and his friend Chet Rollins, another longtime cowhand, work on cattle ranches, preferring to do "nothing that can't be done from a horse". Along the way we are also told the stories of his associates, Chet, his long time companion who eventually moves to town, marries, and becomes a merchant, his fellow hands at the Slash Y, the woman "...known to him and all too many other men...as Yellow Hair Hattie," and even some of their horses such a Hellfire, Monkey Face, and his faithful dun cow pony as they cope with blizzards, stampedes, rustlers, and the encroachments of Progress. Their rough cowboy ethics see them through every imaginable challenge: blizzards, rustlers, outlaws, and card games gone wrong. Just started it...The first 2 pages & I was hooked! I always loved cowboys (on TV; I never actually knew any.) Most reviews of the film were positive, and the western has scored an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This book reminds me of my daddy, and my granddaddys so much that it really pulls on the heartstrings. Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." I was in the theater watching Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Van Heflin and Jean Arthur as a kid. This is a special book that made me laugh and made me cry. I think it wouldn't have bothered me so much if I had read this verses having done the audio. I gave the book 3-stars... but it's more like a 3.5-star book. He passed his love of books on to his daughters, but I never read westerns. For me, this got a little tiresome especially as the author gives short shrift in describing the beauty of the American southwest. Monte Walsh: “I got two.” Chet: “What are we doing here, Monte?” Monte: “We’re cowboying, Chet. And the story; the story is captivating. Discover (and save!) Read because of Dana Stabenow's rave reco. Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. When they find out that the Cross Bar ranch that they had worked "was wiped out during the last winter", they take work at the Slash Y ranch where their old boss Cal Brennan is the "range manager". 2 talking about this. I cried at the end. The first few years were very hard for Monte he had to work for food and eventually got some money as he started to get better at odd jobs and ranch work he began to make a name for himself. But Schaefer takes the horse discussion to extremes. It ends the way it must end which I don't believe is giving anything away. Louis L'amour, Zane Gray, and Jack Schaeffer were among his favorites. Written by Jack Schaefer, who also wrote Shane, Monte Walsh will disappoint those who seek blazing action or steaming romance. Shaefer provides a truly vivid and likely accurate portrayal of cowboy life in the latter half of the 19th century from the simpler times when ranch and cowboy activity was at it’s prime to when the influx of technology such as automobiles began to signal their coming decline and the end of a way of life. We see Monte and his fellow cowboys at Slash Y go through the ups and downs of ranch life in the old west and really get to know the characters. Monte Walsh is, as it says at the end, A Good Man With a Horse. The first few years were very hard for Monte he had to work for food and eventually got some money as he started to get better at odd jobs and ranch work he began to mak. At times was slow but it had genuine cowboy charm. At this point, Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected. This a wonderful novel telling the story of likable cowboy Monte Walsh and his faithful friend Chet Rollins in a series of vignettes that can be humorous, exciting, or touching. But he did not read literary novels. Shorty shoots Monte in the arm. Monte Walsh, as Martine prepares to move 40 miles away: “It ain’t like I don’t have a horse.” Monte Walsh: “Martine, were your mommy and daddy married?” Martine: “Probably. There's way more discussion of and about horses in "Monte Walsh" than is usually encountered in a western. He shoots and kills Chet. Welcome back. Same category, same rating! Richard Harris stars as Lord John Morgan in this carefully documented epic that realistically portrays the life of the American Sioux Indian Tribe. Hardly a day went by without him reading at leas. MONTE WALSH BY Jack Schaefer chronicles the life and times of a man who makes his life as a cowboy working for the Slash Y outfit, and begins with Monte leaving home as a young boy after escaping a beating from his stepfather after injuring a prized stallion he wasn’t supposed to ride. Published Monte pursues Shorty through a cattle-processing building. she has died. Richard Harris stars as Lord John Morgan in this carefully documented epic that realistically portrays the life of the American Sioux Indian Tribe. He attended graduate school at Columbia University from 1929-30, but left without completing his Master of Arts degree. This is a speci. I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. Their rough cowboy ethics see them through every imaginable challenge: blizzards, rustlers, outlaws, and card games gone wrong. The story has elements of a tragedy. For a decade they are unbeatable and inseparable, working as trail hands throughout the West until finally settling with Cal Brennan’s Slash Y. As barbed wire and railroads steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy. I liked this book because it showed what the real life of what a cowboy was like and how hard it was to actually make something of yourself in the harshness of the west. I have never encountered a better memorial for that land, and the men and women who made it, than this book. The theme of the last scene is a repeat of the opening scene where Monte sees a wolf and prepares to shoot it. Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. While searching for Shorty, Monte finds out that Martine is "in a bad way". He read the Bible, golf books, and nonfiction, especially history. I really enjoyed it and the ending was great. Simply a classic. Excited to watch the movie starring Tom Selleck and see how it compares. B. Guthrie, Jr. First published in 1963, Monte Walsh is considered by many to be one of the great classic Westerns. I'm not usually a Western kind of person. Monte Walsh is the debut feature of cameraman-turned-director William A.Fraker. With Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Palance, Mitchell Ryan. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Monte Walsh ★★½ 2003Tried-and-true horse opera adapted from the novel by Jack Schaefer and a remake of the 1970 film. He goes to see her, but he arrives too late. I've read this book at least 10 times, and it still breaks my heart. Chet marries and goes on to become a successful merchant, banker, and politician; but Monte, unable to imagine anything but the cowboy’s way of life, refuses to the end to leave the range. He and his friend Chet Rollins, another longtime cowhand, work at whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse". As Shorty dies, Monte says to him, or maybe to himself as Shorty might already be dead, "I rode down the grey... you had to sit him high.". Hell of a life.” Chet: “Yeah, a hell of a life.” Monte: “I’m not doing nothing I can’t do from a horse.” Shorty holsters his pistol, and Monte shoots the unarmed Shorty. Directed by William A. Fraker. You live his life with him, and the sights, smells, and wonder of the old, untamed West seep in, like the first melt of the snow, creeping through the soil, starting the new grass for the year. While aiming, he is talking to his horse (in the opening scene he was talking to Chet) and segues into the same story he told in scene one about a man, Big Joe Abernathy, who used to wrestle wolves. Partial to pretty women, gambling, and practical jokes, Monte is often on the receiving end of trouble, while Chet is always there to break him out of jail or serve as a decoy until Monte can get out of town in a hurry. One of the very best westerns and by any measure a great great book. Instead it is a story of the decline and eventual disappearance of the free ranging American cowboy, a species increasingly endangered by barbed wire fences, railroads, industrialized ranching, and gasoline engines from 1872 - 1913. Just finished and I'm crying like a baby. But this isn't really a Western. It is the story of a man's life. Neither the various plots nor the main character were interesting enough to carry the book. The way in which the chapters are formatted, with every chapter almost being a self contained story, gives the reader a sense of scope and allows the book to easily skip around the life of Monte Walsh. It stands alongside Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway trilogy. He doesn't shoot the wolf. Simply a great Western. Monte Walsh has never met a horse he couldn’t ride, and Chet Rollins has never met one he couldn’t rope. Monte Walsh and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of 1892. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1929 with a major in English. To me, this book is flawless. In the beginning you are introduced to a skinny 16 year old that works for his unappreciative step dad until one day Monte finally had enough and ran away with nothing to show for himself and very little of a plan. Yes he does, Apparently Cheryl didn't read the book. He loved to read, but he was particular about his book choice. In fact, he only read one genre of fiction, westerns. Chet marries Mary and will go to work in the hardware store. Story of a man, his horses - with a decided preference for buckskins - and the coming of the wire to the West. Monte was known for riding any horse you had. Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the final days of the Wild West era. In his long career as a journalist, he would hold editorial positions at many eastern publications. Written by Jack Schaefer, who also wrote Shane, Monte Walsh will disappoint those who seek blazing action or steaming romance. I simply disappeared between the covers of this book. Monte Walsh has a lot of western cliches, but Schaefer's portrayal of the protagonist Monte Walsh, his best friend Chet Rollins, and many other characters plus his depictions of the landscape completely rescue the book from those cliches. Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. The two movies made from the novel are quite good (Lee Marvin and Jack Palance were in one, Tom Selleck in the other), but the book is better and has a different ending. He read the Bible, golf books, and nonfiction, especially history. Not only my favorite western of all time, but probably my favorite book of all time. Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/monte-walsh-1970, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monte_Walsh_(1970_film)&oldid=1017403590, Articles needing additional references from October 2017, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, John Hudkins as Sonny Jacobs (as John 'Bear' Hudkins), Raymond Guth as Sunfish Perkins (as Ray Guth), This page was last edited on 12 April 2021, at 15:25. We’d love your help. Classic, inspirational and a 'favorite. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Refresh and try again. On my first cross country flight in a T28 fall 1973 and visiting a friend who was on staff at William and Mary. If you only read one Western novel, read Monte Walsh. The dialog is crisp and real. Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Selleck: Monte Walsh is a simple morality story, ... Perhaps if you’re just sitting on your horse between takes and staying on the set, you can still kind of experience that lifestyle. Shaefer provides a truly vivid and likely accurate portrayal of cowboy life in the latter half of the 19th century from the simpler times when ranch and cowboy activity was at it’s prime to when the influx of technology such as automobiles began to signal their coming decline and the end of a way of life. Richard Harris stars as Lord John Morgan in this carefully documented epic that realistically portrays the life of the American Sioux Indian Tribe. I really enjoyed this book. by Bison Books. Monte Walsh is a 1970 American Western film directed by cinematographer William A. Fraker (his directorial debut) starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance. 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