Ryker hires Jack Wilson, an unscrupulous and notoriously skilled gunfighter. Ryker promises the next fight will be with guns. On Shane's next trip to town with the Starretts and other homesteaders, he defeats Calloway, and then he and Starrett win a bar room brawl against most of Ryker's other men. Chris Calloway, one of Ryker's men, ridicules and taunts Shane by dumping his drink on him, but Shane ignores him and leaves. Shane enters the saloon where Ryker's men are drinking and orders a soda pop for Joey. Shane goes to town alone to buy supplies at Grafton's, a general store with an adjacent saloon. Though they have claimed their land legally under the Homestead Acts, a ruthless cattle baron, Rufus Ryker, has hired various rogues and henchmen to harass them and force them out of the valley. Starrett tells Shane that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's settlers. A drifter, he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble rancher Joe Starrett, who is homesteading with his wife, Marian, and their young son, Joey. Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory, sometime after the Civil War. Shane ( Alan Ladd) and Marian Starrett ( Jean Arthur)