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The act of scalping featured prominently in some Westerns such as the 1966 Burt Reynolds spaghetti western Navajo Joe which opens with an Indian massacre in which a white profiteer scalps an Indian woman, and the 1990 film Dances with Wolves which shows Pawnee Indians with scalps hanging from their bow or lance and Timmons, the teamster is scalped after being ambushed by the Pawnee.

The Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian is about a group of mercenaries making a living off Indian scalps and references the activity extensively, and in Karl May's novels the character Sam Hawkins had been scalped by Indian warriors and survives.

The first work in the Lonesome Dove series, Dead Man's Walk features a scalping, as does James Carlos Blake's In the Rogue Blood.

Likewise, George Macdonald Fraser's antihero, Harry Flashman, observes scalping and is himself partially scalped in Flashman and the Redskins.

Titus Bass, the protagonist of Terry Johnston ’ s nine historical novels about the Rocky Mountain fur trade, survives being scalped.

Even the children's novel Peter and Wendy by J. M.

Barrie features a description of a " Redskin " scalper: " In the van, on all fours, is Great Big Little Panther, a brave of so many scalps that in his present position they somewhat impede his progress.

" Henry Frapp ( Brian Keith ) is scalped offscreen in the 1980 film The Mountain Men and survives the experience.