 During this period, Pierce worked as set decorator on films "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976) and "The Cheap Detective" (1978).The year after "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", Piece directed and co-wrote "Grayeagle", a Western based on a Cheyenne legend of a white man whose child (with an Indian wife) is kidnapped by a young warrior named Grayeagle.Pierce appeared in the film as Bugler, a half-insane white man who takes on a Shoshone identity.