Author | Forrest Carter |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Western |
Published | 1972 |
Publisher | Whippoorwill Publishers |
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales is a 1972 American Western novel (also republished in 1975 as Gone to Texas) written by Forrest Carter that was adapted into the film The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The novel was republished in 1975 under the title Gone to Texas.
Wales was portrayed by Michael Parks in the 1986 sequel to the film The Return of Josey Wales.
Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer, seeks vengeance when his family is murdered by a gang of Unionists in the final days of the American Civil War.