"After avenging his family's brutal murder, [Josey] Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts ... is drawn to him--and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected"--Container.

A peaceful farmer turns Confederate renegade to avenge the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of bandits-turned-Union sympathizers.