<P> Senator Lane forces Fletcher to work with Terrill in tracking down Wales and puts a $5,000 bounty on Wales, who is now on the run from Union militia and bounty hunters . Along the way, despite wishing to be left alone, he accumulates a diverse group of companions . They include an old Cherokee named Lone Watie, a young Navajo woman, and an elderly woman from Kansas and her granddaughter Laura Lee, whom Wales rescues from Comancheros . At Santo Rio, two men, Travis and Chato, join their group . </P> <P> Wales and his companions find the abandoned ranch owned by Laura's father and inhabit it after Wales parleys and makes peace with the neighboring Comanche tribe leader, Ten Bears . Meanwhile, a bounty hunter who identified Wales at Santo Rio, guides Captain Terrill and his men to the town . The following morning, the ranch is attacked by the Redlegs . Wales' companions take shelter in the fortified ranch house and open fire, gunning down all of Terrill's men . A wounded Wales, despite being out of ammunition, pursues the fleeing Terrill . When he corners him, Wales dry fires his four pistols through all the empty chambers before stabbing and killing Terrill with his own cavalry sword . </P> <P> At the bar in Santa Rio, Wales finds Fletcher with two Texas Rangers . The locals at the bar, who refer to Wales as "Mr. Wilson," tell the Rangers that Wales was killed in a shoot - out in Monterrey, Mexico . The Rangers accept this story and move on . Fletcher refuses to believe the story, but pretends to not recognize Wales and says that he will go to Mexico to look for Wales himself, and try to convince him that the war is over, because he owes him that . Wales says that they all died a little in the war, before riding off . </P> <Ul> <Li> Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales </Li> <Li> Chief Dan George as Lone Watie </Li> <Li> Sondra Locke as Laura Lee </Li> <Li> Bill McKinney as Terrill </Li> <Li> John Vernon as Fletcher </Li> <Li> Paula Trueman as Grandma Sarah </Li> <Li> Sam Bottoms as Jamie </Li> <Li> Charles Tyner as Zukie Limmer </Li> <Li> Geraldine Keams as Little Moonlight </Li> <Li> Woodrow Parfrey as Carpetbagger </Li> <Li> Joyce Jameson as Rose </Li> <Li> Sheb Wooley as Travis Cobb </Li> <Li> Royal Dano as Ten Spot </Li> <Li> Matt Clark as Kelly </Li> <Li> Will Sampson as Ten Bears </Li> <Li> John Quade as Comanchero Leader </Li> <Li> John Russell as "Bloody Bill" Anderson </Li> <Li> William O'Connell as Sim Carstairs </Li> </Ul>

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