"I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damned war", before riding off. Cast Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales Chief Dan George as Lone Watie Sondra Locke as Laura Lee Bill McKinney as Captain Terrill John Vernon as Fletcher Paula Trueman as Grandma Sarah Turner Sam Bottoms as Jamie Geraldine Keams as Little Moonlight Woodrow Parfrey as Carpetbagger Percy Long Joyce Jameson as Rose Sheb Wooley as Travis Cobb Royal Dano as Ten Spot Matt Clark as Kelly John Verros as Chato Will Sampson as Ten Bears William O'Connell as Sim Carstairs John Quade as Comanchero Leader Ciril E. Forebaugh Frank Schofield as Senator James H. Lane Buck Kartalian as Shopkeeper Len Lesser as Abe Doug McGrath as Lige John Russell as "Bloody Bill" Anderson Charles Tyner as Zukie Limmer Bruce M. Fischer as Yoke John Mitchum as Al John Chandler as First Bounty Hunter Tom Roy Lowe as Second Bounty Hunter Clay Tanner as First Texas Ranger Bob Hoy as Second Texas Ranger Richard Farnsworth as Grady P. Merideth, comanchero Production The Outlaw Josey Wales was inspired by a 1972 novel by supposedly-Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, alias of former KKK Leader and segregationist speech writer of George Wallace, Asa Earl Carter, an identity that would be exposed in part due to the success of the film, and was originally titled The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales and later retitled Gone to Texas. The script was worked on by Sonia Chernus and producer Robert Daley at Malpaso, and Eastwood himself paid some of the money to obtain the screen rights. Michael Cimino and Philip Kaufman later oversaw the writing of the script, aiding Chernus. Kaufman wanted the film to stay as close to the novel as possible in style and retained many of the mannerisms in Wales's character which Eastwood would display on screen, such as his distinctive lingo with words like "reckon", "hoss" (instead of "horse"), and "ye" (instead of "you") and spitting tobacco juice on animals and victims. The characters of Wales, the Cherokee chief, Navajo woman, and the old settler woman and her daughter all appeared in the novel. On the other hand, Kaufman was less happy with the novel's political stance; he felt that it had been "written by a crude fascist" and that "the man's hatred of government was insane". He also felt that that element of the script needed to be