Forrest Carter is an underappreciated writer of the Old West. But Carter’s work has received notice. His book The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales was the inspiration for the classic Western starring Clint Eastwood. And Larry McMurtry, who gave us Lonesome Dove, said this about Carter’s novels: “Compelling. Can surely stand comparison with the best novels of Indian life.”
My review of The Rebel Outlaw is the featured post at the Abbeville Institute Press.
All writers have a slant per E. B. White. Reading your review and thinking about the civil war historians of my youth, it appears Forest Carter’s slant is definitely pro-Confederate. Is that correct?
Ray
Yes, just like the movie. Fighting in Missouri was especially vicious.
Awesome book and awesome movie! Time to pull it down off the shelf and reread it.
As I wrote in my review, it’s the first book I’ve ever re-read immediately after the first time I read it. Loved it.