In the end, he kills Terrill and makes his peace with Fletcher, settling into a quiet life as a rancher with Laura Lee. Fletcher, in turn, persuades his fellow lawmen that Wales was killed in a shootout, allowing his friend to finally live in peace.
But in one tragic encounter with Union troops, Wales lost it all as his wife and son were killed and his Missouri home destroyed during the Civil War. With a blazing fire in his heart and a fierce determination guiding his every move, Josey Wales sets out to avenge his family.
The Return of Josey Wales is a 1986 American Western film directed by and starring Michael Parks It is a sequel to Clint Eastwood's 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales and was adapted from The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, the 1976 second novel featuring the Josey Wales character, by Asa Earl Carter.
Plunderers and militant abolitionists were referred to as "Jayhawkers" or "Red Legs" and both were used as terms of derision towards those from Kansas after the Civil War. The term "Jayhawk" has evolved over the years to a term of pride used by some Kansans.
The Eastwood Rule is a rule in the Director's Guild of America that prohibits someone already working on a film (producer, actor, etc.) from firing a director during production and replacing them with themselves.
How historically accurate is the outlaw Josey Wales?
9 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
While Wales was a real person — and he did enact violence on Union soldiers — there are some inaccuracies to Eastwood's interpretation of the character. Most notably, the real-life Wales didn't attack Union soldiers because he lost his family to them (via Notes From the Frontier).
When the Civil War began, these vigilante units mustered into the federal army and became formally recognized Union regiments calling themselves “Jayhawkers.” Some men who enlisted in the jayhawker outfits were sincere abolitionists, some were devout Unionist and brave soldiers defending their homeland, and others were ...
The Outlaw Josey Wales production team descended upon Lake Powell in October 1975 to commence filming. The production process took eight and a half weeks with various scenes filmed in other locations around Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, and Oroville, California.
Driven to revenge, Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla band and makes a name for himself as a feared gunfighter. After the war, all the fighters in Wales' group except for him surrender to Union soldiers, but the Confederates end up being massacred.
Josey and Jamie cross the Missouri river on a ferry (tethered barge). The Union pursuers are on the next barge trip, and Josey shoots the rope sending the barge down the river. Josey was headed South and West towards Texas, and presumably was on the west side of the river.
Today Bloody Bill Anderson's legacy lives on. He is often referenced in movies and books about Frank and Jesse James. Anderson was also included in the 1976 movie Outlaw Josey Wales, he was portrayed by John Russell. Bloody Bill Anderson is just another casualty in the deadly guerrilla war.
Pale Rider was primarily filmed in the Boulder Mountains and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in central Idaho, just north of Sun Valley in late 1984. The opening credits scene featured the jagged Sawtooth Mountains south of Stanley. Train-station scenes were filmed in Tuolumne County, California, near Jamestown.
Wales (Eastwood) carried his signature dual Colt Army Model Whitneyville Walker revolvers with him throughout the film as he hunted the men who killed his family.
Clint spent a couple years in the Pacific Northwest himself, operating log broncs in Springfield, Oregon, with summer gigs life-guarding in Renton, Washington. Returning to California in 1951, he did a two-year stint at Fort Ord Military Reservation and later enrolled at L.A.
What happened between Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke?
According to court testimony, Locke confronted Eastwood over his passive-aggressive behavior on December 29, 1988, eliciting estrangement between the couple.
The abolitionist Jayhawkers, just like the pro-slavery Bushwhackers, were non-uniformed irregular soldiers who used guerilla tactics to raid territory held by the enemy. These tactics were often what we could call today as “terrorism”. I would be reluctant to call the irregular forces of either side “heroes”.
Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.
The Confederate constitution also accounted for enslaved people as three-fifths of a state's population (like the U.S. Constitution did at the time), and it required that any new territory acquired by the nation allow slavery.
Josey wales carying 4 pistols was actually a very commonly used tactic by Civil War Guerilla Fighters. Revolvers were almost never reloaded during battle, and were mostly thrown aside when they were emptied.
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales is a 1973 American Western novel (also titled Gone to Texas in later editions) written by Asa Earl Carter (under the pen name Forrest Carter). It was adapted into the film The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
