Drennan, William Ryland. "Jack Schaefer." In Beacham's Popular Fiction in America, edited by Walton Beacham and Suzanne Niemeyer.

Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, 1986. An overview of Schaefer's chief works, especially Shane, Monte Walsh, and Old Ramon.

Haslam, Gerald. Jack Schaefer. Boise State University Western Writers Series. No. 20. Boise, ID: Boise State University Press, 1975. A brief, sympathetic discussion of Schaefer's works and themes.

Scott, Winfield Townley. "Introduction" to Collected Stories of Jack Schaefer.

New York: Arbor House, 1966. A concise look at Schaefer, his debts to earlier writers, and his place in the literature of the American West.