The Man of the Forest foreshadows "revisionist" Westerns like A Man Called Horse and Dances With Wolves, its hero a white man who's turned his back on industry and farm alike to live like the Indians, who accept him as a trusted companion.

Author Biography

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.