THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE AUTHOR: Forrest Carter (1925 - 1979) Foreword by Rennard Strickland Forrest Carter was born on September the 4th in 1925, in Oxford, Alabama as Asa Earl Carter (also known as "Ace" Carter). Asa Carter was the eldest of four children, he had two brothers and a sister, and their parents rose all in Oxford, Alabama as well. Carter's father lived at least long enough to purchase a farm on which the adult Asa …
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…thank Willow John that he gets out of the orphanage. After a while Willow John dies. About two years later Granpa slips and dies. Little Tree tries to run the still but the ware was not as good so he quit. In spring, granma dies on the porch in a rocking chair. Little Tree decides to head west, across the mountains through the Nation with Blue Boy and Little Red, who later die as well.