Arrow in the Sun
by Theodore V. Olsen
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The wagon train had only two survivors, the young soldier Honus Gant and beautiful, wilful Cresta Lee. They both knew that the legendary Cheyenne chief Spotted Wolf would not rest until he caught them both.Tags
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This is a pretty, Indians versus the Americans novel, and it's pretty accurate about their attitudes to each other by the early 1870's. We're not looking for a happy ending here, but perhaps some elements of personal growth by the main characters. And we do get that.
There was a movie I saw as a teenager called"Soldier Blue." I looked it up and found that it was based on a book called"Arrow in the Sun."
This work was better than the movie, which was gory and a supposed allegory to the My Lai massacre. There was no undue violence; it was actually a love story.
This work was better than the movie, which was gory and a supposed allegory to the My Lai massacre. There was no undue violence; it was actually a love story.
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Theodore V. Olsen was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin on April 25, 1932. He graduated from Rhinelander High School in 1950 and received his B. S. from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 1955. He had planned on being a comic strip artist but eventually grew more interested in writing than in art. In 1955, after many rewrites, Olsen sold show more his first book, Valley of the Hunted to Ace Books. It was published in 1956 as Haven of the Hunted. Olsen has written other genres besides westerns, including adventure, gothic, romance and historical. He has written under various pen names as well, such as Cass Willoughby, Christopher Storm and Joshua Stark. Olsen's book The Stalking Moon was made into a movie in 1968 and his novel Arrow in the Sun became the movie Soldier Blue in 1970. In 1992 he won the Golden Spur Award for Golden Chance. Olsen died July 13, 1993 at his home in Wisconsin at the age of 61. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Arrow in the Sun
- Related movies
- Soldier Blue (1970 | IMDb)
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3565 .L8 .A77 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 4
