Jack Schaefer

(Wikipedia) Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 – January 24, 1991) was an American writer known for his Westerns. His best-known work is Shane, which was made into the film Shane, and the short story "Stubby Pringle's Christmas" (1964).
... Schaefer's first success as a novelist came in 1949 with his novel Shane, set in Wyoming. Though Schaefer himself had never been in the western United States, he continued writing westerns, selling his home in Connecticut and moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1955. Continued