“Did you sketch this picture of my daughter?” Cindy Costner, Kevin’s wife at the time, asked a Union soldier during a lull in the Dances With Wolves filming in 1989. “I did,” answered Jim Hatzell, a Western artist from Rapid City, South Dakota. “May I see your sketchbook?” asked Cindy, who then began flipping through his sketches and commenting how much she liked his artwork. Hatzell and I had met as the film crew positioned us for Lt. John J. Dunbar’s hospital escape scene. W
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