Historical Evaluatino of "Dances With Wolves" by Michael Blake

Dances With Wolves, by Michael Blake, creates a remarkable story of a soldier named Lieutenant Dunbar. This story is written in third person, and has diary entries of lieutenant Dunbar in them. The story tells off buffalo, Comanche enemies, Comanche leisure, society, homes, religion, and clothing. In the novel, Dunbar meets Comanche Indians, and learns their ways of life. The story takes place during the civil war era. Eighteen excerpts from the novel and nineteen citations have been used to determine the historical accurateness of Dances With Wolves.
Dunbar is a civil war hero who is se…