Sam Bottoms

Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a down-on-its-luck traveling Wild West show. Along the way he picks up a snooty, rich young woman who was left in the desert by her fiancé without any money. He likes her spirit and hires her as his assistant.

With fresh memories of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney), Confederate Josey Wales (Eastwood) refuses to join his captain Fletcher (John Vernon) and the rest of his comrades in surrender to a U.S. Army regiment. Deemed a dangerous outlaw after a bloody one-man battle with that regiment, Josey is pursued by U.S. Cavalry soldiers led by the unwilling Fletcher and the murderous Terrill, as well as by bounty hunters who...