Artful Reinvention of Asa Carter as author Forrest Carter.

So I just by chance to happened to listen to this NPR program this evening:

The Artful Reinvention Of Klansman Asa Earl Carter



A more complete biography of Asa Carter shows just what a vehement and dangerous segregationist Carter was through the 1950s and 1960s.



Later in life, and after reinventing himself as Forrest Carter, Asa Carter wrote a number of popular books including The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales (made into a well known film starring Clint Eastwood) and The Education of Little Tree (a purported memoir of Carter's childhood, but actually fictional).

That he would later write a book like The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales makes sense. I have to wonder what was going through his mind when he wrote a book like The Education of Little Tree though. An attempt to forget his past or for redemption late in life?

[Apache]

The book's title is Gone to Texas. He also wrote a sequel The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales.
Apache

Originally Posted by Apache

The book's title is Gone to Texas. He also wrote a sequel The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales.
Apache

Actually according to the Wikipedia article:

The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (Whippoorwill Pub., 1973; reprinted by Delacorte in 1975 as Gone to Texas; and by Dell in 1980 as The Outlaw Josey Wales).

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

Actually according to the Wikipedia article:

Thanks for the update. I just remembered buying it in 1975.
I think they renamed it The Outlaw Josey Wales to capitalize on the Clint Eastwood Movie from 1976.
Apache