Gone to Texas

Type

Book

Authors

Forrest Carter ( Carter, Forrest )

ISBN 10

0440045657

ISBN 13

9780440045656

Tags

Western stories, Indigenous authors, American fiction, Fiction

Abstract

"Josey Wales lost his young wife and child to pre-Civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri — men with no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge. A hunted fugitive with a price on his head and bands of cavalry and bounty hunters on his trail, Josey and a Cherokee friend, Lone Watie, set out for the West through the dangerous Comanchero 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. Now there are five of them, bonded for survival, moving southward to Texas, winning through a brash and honest violence the surprise chance for a new way of life."--Book jacket.

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