Dances with Wolves

Front Cover
Penguin Books, 1988 - Comanche Indians - 313 pages
"Forgotten by the army who sent him to a remote outpost on the Western frontier, Lieutenant John Dunbar was no ordinary officer: tough, rugged, independent and - with only his faithful horse Cisco and a lone wolf for company - as free as a man could be. Gradually forming a bond with the wild, beautiful country and its people, Lieutenant Dunbar grows to love the Indians, learning their language, adopting the name Dances With Wolves, vanquishing the war-like Pawnee tribe, and, most unexpectedly of all, losing his heart to a mysterious white woman in native dress. But Dances With Wolves' peaceful existence is brutally shattered when his past returns to haunt him - and he is forced to make the most painful decision of his life ..." - back cover.

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
13
Section 3
16
Section 4
20
Section 5
25
Section 6
37
Section 7
43
Section 8
47
Section 17
144
Section 18
158
Section 19
176
Section 20
188
Section 21
203
Section 22
210
Section 23
223
Section 24
232

Section 9
56
Section 10
67
Section 11
70
Section 12
78
Section 13
95
Section 14
106
Section 15
118
Section 16
125
Section 25
241
Section 26
256
Section 27
272
Section 28
280
Section 29
290
Section 30
304
Section 31

References to this book

About the author (1988)

Michael Blake was born Michael Lennox Webb in Fort Bragg, North Carolina on July 5, 1945. He joined the Air Force and was assigned to the public information office and began writing for the base newspaper. He attended the University of New Mexico before going to film school at the University of California, Berkeley. One of his first screenplays, Stacy's Knights, was produced in 1983 and starred Kevin Costner. He continued to write scripts for the next several years, but nothing he wrote made it to the screen. After reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, Blake had the idea for Dances with Wolves. Costner suggested he write a book instead of a screenplay. The book was published in 1988. Blake had just lost his job as a dishwasher when Costner asked him to adapt his own novel into a screenplay. The Dances with Wolves film was released in 1990. Blake received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His other novels included Airman Mortensen and The Holy Road. He died from heart failure on May 2, 2015 at the age of 69.

Bibliographic information

TitleDances with Wolves
Penguin Books
Penguin, Fiction
AuthorMichael Blake
Edition26, reprint, braille
PublisherPenguin Books, 1988
ISBN0140157093, 9780140157093
Length313 pages
  
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