Dances with Wolves (1990)
Directed by Kevin Costner
A Union lieutenant asks for a frontier post, finds it deserted and is drawn into the life of a neighbouring Lakota band on the Great Plains.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1St. David's Field (fictional)≈ 00:00:00Stated on screenFictional
Wounded and expecting to lose his leg, Dunbar rides along the Confederate line and turns the battle.
- 2Fort Hays, Kansas≈ 00:12:00Stated on screen
The unhinged Major Fambrough posts him to the farthest outpost.
- 3Fort Sedgwick (fictional frontier outpost)≈ 00:25:00Stated on screenFictional
Dunbar finds the fort abandoned and keeps it alone, befriending a wolf.
- 4Ten Bears' Lakota summer camp (fictional)≈ 00:50:00InferredFictional
He brings back the injured Stands With A Fist and slowly learns the Lakota language with Kicking Bird.
- 5Buffalo hunt≈ 01:40:00Great Plains, United StatesInferred
Dunbar rides with the band on the buffalo hunt.
- 6Reoccupied fort≈ 02:30:00Fort Sedgwick (fictional frontier outpost)Stated on screenFictional
- 7River crossing, convoy to Fort Hays≈ 02:40:00Great Plains, United StatesInferred
- 8Lakota winter camp (fictional)≈ 02:50:00InferredFictional
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 3,491 km
- Places
- 6
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 8
- Horse: 2,132 km
- Not shown: 1,359 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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