Talmage Boston: A Christmas gift with some election year advice

Newspaper reprint of a Western story sent me galloping into the wisdom of Jack Schaefer.

Contributing Columnist Talmage Boston (Michael Hogue)

Two months after Christmas, who remembers which present had the biggest impact? This February, that’s easy for me to answer. The gift appeared on the front page of the Dallas Morning News’ Christmas Eve Opinion section, with the publication of the short story “Stubby Pringle’s Christmas,” by Jack Schaefer. Seeing it had been written by the author of the classic Western novel Shane, I had to read it.