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Contents
Sharing Little Tree
Little Tree
The Way
Shadows on a Cabin Wall
Fox and Hounds
“I Kin Ye, Bonnie Bee”
To Know the Past
Pine Billy
The Secret Place
Granpa’s Trade
Trading with a Christian
At the Crossroads Store
A Dangerous Adventure
The Farm in the Clearing
A Night on the Mountain
Willow John
Church-going
Mr. Wine
Down from the Mountain
The Dog Star
Home Again
The Passing Song
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The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter
Foreword by Rennard Strickland
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
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ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8263-1694-3
© 1976 by Forrest Carter; Copyright renewed 2004
© 2008 by India Carter LLC
All rights reserved.
University of New Mexico Press edition reprinted by arrangement India
Carter LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carter, Forrest
The education of Little Tree.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Delacorte Press.
© 1976. With new foreword.
1. Carter, Forrest—Biography—Youth.
2. Novelists, American—20th century—Biography.
3. Cherokee Indians—Biography. I. Title.
[ps3553.a777z464 1986] 813.54 85-28956
ISBN 0-8263-2809-1
An Eleanor Friede Book
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Sharing Little Tree
Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to
do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good
spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.
In reissuing Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree, the
University of New Mexico Press is doing exactly what Granma advised
young Little Tree. The Press is sharing an important book. Little Tree is
one of those rare books like Huck Finn that each new generation needs
to discover and which needs to be read and reread regularly. The
Education of Little Tree is a fine and sustaining book, wonderfully funny
and deeply poignant.
Little Tree’s author, Forrest Carter, wrote a number of important
books including the popular Outlaw Josey Wales; he wrote one great
book, The Education of Little Tree. Originally to have been called “Me
and Grandpa,” Little Tree is Carter’s autobiographical remembrances of
life with his Eastern Cherokee hill country grandparents. But Little Tree
is more, much more than a touching account of 1930s depression-era
life. This book is a human document of universal meaning. The
Education of Little Tree speaks to the human spirit and reaches the very
depth of the human soul.
Everyone who has ever read The Education of Little Tree seems to
remember when and where and how they came to know the book.
Whether they saw it in the autobiography section of a chain bookseller,
or heard it reviewed as “Book of the Week” on a television book show,
or found it on the gift table at a tribal souvenir shop while passing through
an Indian reservation, Little Tree’s readers passionately remember these
first meetings. For The Education of Little Tree is a book from which one
never quite recovers. After reading Little Tree one never again sees the
world in quite the same way.
Upon publication in 1977 The Education of Little Tree was widely
reviewed and universally acclaimed. Reviewers as diverse as those of
The New York Times and local mountain weeklies saw in The
Education of Little Tree an inspirational, autobiographical remembrance
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