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; it was finally adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Costner, in 1990. Union Lieutenant John Dunbar finds himself stranded in the wilderness and comes to live with a tribe of Comanche 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. [
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