The Outlaw Josey Wales

Carter, Forrest

ISBN 10: 044012994X / ISBN 13: 9780440129943

Published by Dell, 1980

About this Item

Reprint of 'The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales,' also released as 'Gone to Texas.' The basis for the classic 1976 Clint Eastwood western. Small color chip on top edge of front cover and touch of wear at base of spine. Seller Inventory # 01127659

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Outlaw Josey Wales

Publisher: Dell

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: VG-

Edition: 1st Thus.

About this title

From Booklist:

Immediately familiar to many as the basis of one of Clint Eastwood’s most successful westerns, this reissue in Leisure’s Classic Film Collection was published as The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales in 1973. Set around the time of the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a Missouri farmer who, after his family is murdered by Union militia, joins up with a violent group of Confederate guerrilla fighters. After the war, the Union offers an amnesty to the guerrillas, but Wales refuses to sign. Now a wanted man, with a wounded boy to take care of (after a bungled bank robbery), Wales struggles to stay ahead of his pursuers as he leads them on a desperate chase across two states. The author, whose real name was Asa Earl Carter, was the center of some controversy when it was revealed that his 1976 memoir, The Education of Little Tree, was almost entirely fictional. Leaving allegations about his personal life and beliefs aside, this is a first-rate western, a dramatic character study of a man whose anger and hatred threaten to destroy him. --David Pitt