Argosy Version
Shane was originally published by Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It was published as Rider from Nowhere, a three-part serial, beginning in July 1946. This version was also somewhat shorter. Most notably, it did not include the famous early scene in which Shane and Joe Starrett bond while working together to remove a large stump.[4] Harry Steeger, the editor of Argosy at that time, commented later that when the manuscript arrived, "[it] was so badly typed, single spaced all the way through, dog-eared looking and altogether amateurish in appearance, it should have been returned at once. But an editor started to read it, stuck with it and couldn't put it down until the last word."[13]
Houghton Mifflin
In 1949, Houghton Mifflin issued a revised and expanded version of the Argosy stories.[2]
