Joe Starrett and Shane become friends as Shane helps Joe. Shane works with Joe to remove an old tree stump he had been fighting to remove. The homesteaders are held together by Joe Starrett, who wants to build a life on the land for his wife Marian and young son Joey. Luke Fletcher is a greedy land owner who wants to own the whole town. The ranchers, led by the Ryker brothers, try to intimidate the homesteaders in an effort to force them out of the valley. As tensions increase Luke Fletcher hires a gunfighter named Stark Wilson. Joe Starrett is left with no alternative but to meet the hired gunfighter. It is obvious that Shane is the only match for the hired gunfighter, Wilson. He overpowers Starrett and rides into town where he kills the gunman and the Rykers. There are many contrast between the scenes in both the book and the movie.
One thing that is different is that in the book when Shane first rides into the Starrett’s ranch, he is wearing all black; but in