Editing A Man Called Horse (short story)

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| name         = A Man Called Horse
| title_orig   = 
| translator   = 
| image        = A Man Called Horse (short story).jpg
| caption      = First edition including story
| author       = [[Dorothy M. Johnson]]
| cover_artist = 
| country      = United States
| language     = English
| series       = 
| genre        = [[Short story]]
| publisher    = [[Ballantine Books]]
| release_date = 1953 (collection)
| media_type   = Print ([[Paperback]])
| pages        = 
| isbn =  0-8032-7585-4
| isbn_note = (collection called ''Indian Country'')
| dewey= 813/.54 20
| congress= PS3519.O233 I53 1995
| oclc= 32970185
| preceded_by  = 
| followed_by  = 
}}
'''''A Man Called Horse''''' by [[Dorothy M. Johnson]] was originally published as a [[short story]] in ''[[Collier's Weekly|Collier's]]'' magazine, January 7, 1950,<ref name="MP20">{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Mike |title=A Man Called Horse: Western Melodrama and Southern Gothic |journal=Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) |date=2020 |volume=19 |issue=1 |url=https://americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2020/phillips.htm |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref> and was reprinted in 1953 as a short story in her book ''Indian Country''.  It was later made into a ''[[Wagon Train]]'' [[List of Wagon Train episodes#Season 1 (1957–58)|episode]] in 1958<ref>{{cite web |title=Wagon Train : A Man Called Horse (1958) |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/wagon-train--a-man-called-horse-v477811 |website=Allmovie |access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref> and [[A Man Called Horse (film)|into a film]] in 1970 with [[Richard Harris (actor)|Richard Harris]] in the lead role as John Morgan and [[Manu Tupou]] as Yellow Hand.

==Plot summary==
The protagonist is a Boston [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]] who is captured by a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe.  Initially enslaved, he later comes to respect his captors' culture and gains their respect.<ref name="MP20"/> He joins the tribe by showing his bravery and, later, gets back his dignity by marrying his owner's daughter, killing rival Indians and taking their horses.  Taking the native name "Horse" (he was treated as a horse), he becomes a respected member of the tribe.

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