The Holy Road: A NovelAn unforgettable American story, Dances With Wolves was an international bestseller that has be-come a modern classic. The 1990 film adaptation won seven Academy Awards. In The Holy Road, master storyteller Michael Blake at long last continues the saga. 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. With their three children, they live peacefully in the village of Ten Bears. But there is unease in the air, caused by increased reports of violent confrontations with white soldiers, who want to drive the Comanches onto reservations- a movement symbolized by the railroad, the white man's holy road. Disquiet turns to horror, and then to rage, when a band of white rangers descends on Ten Bears' village, slaughtering half its inhabitants and abducting Stands With A Fist and her infant daughter. The three surviving great warriors- Wind In His Hair, Kicking Bird, and Dances With Wolves - decide they must go to war with the white inva-ders. At the same time, Dances With Wolves realizes that only he can move unnoticed among the white men to rescue his wife and child. Told with the same sweep, insight, and majesty that have made Dances With Wolves a worldwide phenomenon, The Holy Road is an epic story of courage and honor. |
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... horses be if there were no warriors to ride them ? You think more about horses than you do about people ! You are useless to me ! " To feel the wrath of Wind In His Hair beat down on him was hu- miliation enough , but to have his friend ...
... horses be if there were no warriors to ride them ? You think more about horses than you do about people ! You are useless to me ! " To feel the wrath of Wind In His Hair beat down on him was hu- miliation enough , but to have his friend ...
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... horses and shot those still huddled in their lodges while others became embroiled in disputes over who had fired a fatal round . At the height of the attack the gaunt leader found himself besieged by several rangers , each clamoring to ...
... horses and shot those still huddled in their lodges while others became embroiled in disputes over who had fired a fatal round . At the height of the attack the gaunt leader found himself besieged by several rangers , each clamoring to ...
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... horse's tail . Bucolic streams had become racing , churning rivers , and at one crossing Dances With Wolves and Smiles A Lot were unhorsed when a large , thick log they were trying to avoid suddenly veered and struck both horses at once ...
... horse's tail . Bucolic streams had become racing , churning rivers , and at one crossing Dances With Wolves and Smiles A Lot were unhorsed when a large , thick log they were trying to avoid suddenly veered and struck both horses at once ...
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