This book is both beautiful and heartbreaking. Both fascinating and terrible. A gorgeous experience but horribly sad when you know, though history, how it all ends up in reality.
This is the story of a post civil war soldier, Lieutenant John Dunbar (later named Dances With Wolves) that is posted to an abandoned camp where his only companions are his horse, Cisco, and an old wolf that visits occasionally. While he appreciates the beauty and peace of the wild county surrounding his camp, he becomes lonely and after a few encounters with the Comanche Indian tribe that lives nearby, becomes friends with these majestic people.
One of the tribe members is a white woman named Stands with a Fist that was adopted by the tribe when she was a child. She is able to bridge the gap in language and makes it possible for Dunbar to learn about these people and he eventually becomes a part of the tribe living among them and participating in their way of life.
I won't give away the ending of the book (which is a bit different than the movie, which is nearly as good as the book), but I recommend that you read it to discover for yourself.
A beautiful story, but we all know how things turned out in the end for Indians, which makes this story rather heartbreaking as well.
Definitely worth reading, especially if you liked the movie.
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