After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
Jeff Bridges
as Jake Rumsey
Barry Brown
as Drew Dixon
David Huddleston
as Big Joe
Jerry Houser
as Arthur Simms
Geoffrey Lewis
as Hobbs
Ed Lauter
as Orin
John Savage
as Loney
Jim Davis
as Marshal
Damon Douglas
as Jim Bob Logan
Joshua Hill Lewis
as Boog Bookin
John Quade
as Nolan
Jean Allison
as Mrs. Dixon