Editing Fremen (section)

==Origins==
''Dune'' was inspired by Herbert's research for a potential article about the [[United States Department of Agriculture]]'s attempt to use [[poverty grass (disambiguation)|poverty grasses]] to stabilize the [[Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area|Oregon Dunes]] in [[Florence, Oregon]].<ref name="Road">{{cite book|last=Herbert|first=Frank|author2=[[Brian Herbert]], [[Kevin J. Anderson]]|title=[[The Road to Dune]]|publisher=[[Tor Books]]|date=September 2005|isbn=978-0-7653-1295-2}}</ref> Herbert learned that the moving dunes could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways."<ref name="Road"/> He said that in studying sand dunes, we must analyze the "black foot (people) of the [[Kalahari]] and how they utilize every drop of water. You can't just stop with the people who are living in this type of environment: you have to go on to how the environment works on the people and how they work on their environment."<ref name="McNelly">{{cite web |url=http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm |title=Interview with Frank Herbert and Beverly Herbert| last=McNelly |first=Willis E.|author-link=Willis E. McNelly |date=February 3, 1969 |access-date=December 24, 2019}}</ref> Herbert based Fremen culture, in part, on the desert-dwelling [[Bedouin]] and [[San People]].<ref name="McNelly"/>

In an early, alternate ''Dune'' outline by Frank Herbert called ''[[Spice Planet]]'', the Fremen are called the "Free Men". The Free Men were convicts who had been transported to "Duneworld" to work for the spice operation of the "Hoskanners" in exchange for a reduction in their sentence.<ref name="Road"/>