Book description
Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had
been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other
young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri--men with
no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge.
Josey Wales and his Cherokee friend, Lone Watie, set out for the West
through the dangerous Camanchero territory. Hiding by day, traveling
by night, they are joined by an Indian woman named Little Moonlight,
and rescue an old woman and her granddaughter from their besieged
wagon. The five of them travel toward Texas and win through brash and
honest violence, a chance for a new way of life.
Forrest Carter (1925-79) was born and raised in Oxford, Alabama.
