Dances with Wolves
AuthorMichael Blake
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction
Media typePrint
Pages304

Dances with Wolves is a 1988 American Civil War novel by Michael Blake. Originally written as an unsold spec script, it was converted into a novel at the behest of Kevin Costner;[1] it was finally adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Costner, in 1990.[2] Union Lieutenant John Dunbar finds himself stranded in the wilderness and comes to live with a tribe of Lakota Sioux people, soon taking the name Dances with Wolves. The novel and film later came under criticism for similarity to Elliot Silverstein's A Man Called Horse.[3]

On September 4, 2001, Michael Blake published The Holy Road, a sequel to Dances with Wolves; the story is set eleven years later, and deals with the increasing conflict between the Plains Indians and the white man, with tragic outcomes.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Dances with Wolves". South Dakota Midwest Movies. Archived from the original on February 15, 2006. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. ^ Andreychuk, Ed (1997). The Golden Corral: A Roundup of Magnificent Western Films. McFarland. p. 154. ISBN 9780786403936.
  3. ^ Herzberg, Bob (2008). Savages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns. McFarland. p. 279. ISBN 9780786451821.
  4. ^ "THE HOLY ROAD". Publishers Weekly. July 16, 2001. Retrieved November 8, 2022. Eleven years after winning an Academy Award for the film screenplay of his novel Dances with Wolves, Blake offers this dramatic sequel to his tale of army Lt. John Dunbar and his life with the Comanche Indians on the Great Plains. It is now 1874, 11 years after Dunbar deserted from the army to live among the Comanche. He has married Stands with a Fist, the captive white woman raised by Indians, and they have three children. [...]
  5. ^ "The Holy Road. A Novel". book-info.com. 2022. Retrieved November 8, 2022. Eleven years have passed since Lieutenant John Dunbar became the Comanche warrior Dances With Wolves and married Stands With A Fist, a white-born woman raised as a Comanche from early childhood. [...]


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