The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales is a 1973 American Western novel (also titled Gone to Texas in later editions)[1] written by Asa Earl Carter (under the pen name Forrest Carter).

It was adapted into the film The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

[6] Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer, seeks vengeance when his family is murdered by a gang of Unionists during the American Civil War by joining a band of Confederate guerrillas.

At the war's end, he refuses to surrender to the victorious Northern forces and instead becomes an outlaw.

He then sets out to make a new life for himself, all while trying to outrun the men seeking to hunt him down.