Dances with Wolves

The American Frontier Epic including The Holy Road

By: Michael Blake

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Paperback | 10 June 2021

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The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, together in one volume for the first time. 1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John Dunbar watches over the American frontier. A thousand miles back east, his comrades are locked in battle with the Confederates, but out here he is alone.

His desolate posting will bring him into contact with the lords of the southern plains – the Comanche. He has no knowledge of their customs but Dunbar is intrigued by these people and begins a transformation from which he emerges a different man. A man called Dances With Wolves.

The story continues, 11 years later in The Holy Road. Times are hard for the Comanche. The white man is closing in from all directions, claiming land, driving the tribes on to reservations. Should the Comanche fight or make peace? Misunderstanding and duplicity lead to raids and atrocities on both sides that can have only one conclusion. The man that was John Dunbar must go to war again.

About the Author

Michael Blake was born on July 5, 1945 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He wrote Dances With Wolves in 1988 and at Kevin Costner's request adapted his novel into the screenplay that became the 1990 film, winning seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.
Internationally acclaimed for his humanitarian work on behalf of Native Americans and America's wild horses, Blake's sequel to Dances With Wolves, The Holy Road , was published in 2001 and he was working on a third instalment when he died in 2015.

Industry Reviews

'Michael Blake was a true writer ... His love of the American West palpable'
Rolling Stone

'Great visionary writers like Michael Blake are often ahead of Hollywood and ahead of the audience by a generation'
Irish Entertainment

'Inhuman agony, brilliantly portrayed'
Kirkus Reviews

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