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Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China - How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East

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Informationen zum Autor Larry Weirather lives in Vancouver, Washington, and is a professor emeritus of popular culture at Clark College. He has published articles in The Journal of Popular Culture and The Popular Culture Review and served as editor for various literary magazines. Klappentext In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch--the largest in the world--in Siberia to supply the Russian military. Barton later assembled a group of American rodeo stars and drove horses across Mongolia for the war-lords of northern China, creating a 250,000 acre ranch in Shanxi Province. Along the way, Barton became part of an unofficial U.S. intelligence network in the Far East, bred a new type of horse from Russian, Mongolian and American stock and promoted the lifestyle of the open range cowboy. Returning to America, he married one of the wealthiest widows in the Southwest and hobnobbed with Western film stars at a time when Hollywood was constructing the modern myth of the Old West, just as open range cowboy life was disappearing. Zusammenfassung Silk banners and stone dragons, dusty corrals and saddle leather - the North China plains of the warlords meets the cowboy culture of Western America in the years before World War II. Fred Barton led an extraordinary enterprise to supply horses for the feudal warlords. Yet Fred Barton himself remains enigmatic…a cowboy, adventurer, promoter, who had his eyes on many prizes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroductionOne¿¿¿Fort Keogh Days, 1889-1905Twö¿¿A Young Bronc Peeler in Miles City, 1905-1911Three¿¿¿Vladivostok and the World's Largest Horse Ranch, 1911-1912Four¿¿¿"Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em": The ­British-American Tobacco Co., 1912-1916Five¿¿¿Horses for the Warlords: The Longest Drive, 1917Six¿¿¿15th Infantry Cowboys and U.S. Intelligence, 1917Seven¿¿¿Khabarovsk, Siberia, to Hilar, Manchuria, 1917Eight¿¿¿Hilar, Manchuria, to Urga, Mongolia, 1917Nine¿¿¿Across the Gobi: Urga to Kalgan, 1917Ten¿¿¿Final Leg: Kalgan to Taiyuanfu, 1917Eleven¿¿¿Montana Cowboys in the Celestial Empire, 1918-1920Twelve¿¿¿When to Hold 'Em, When to Fold 'Em, 1920-1937Thirteen¿¿¿Poor Little Rich Boy and Princess Xenia, 1920Fourteen¿¿¿The Many Wives of a Lifelong Bachelor, Here and AbroadFifteen¿¿¿Life Without Warlords: C.M. Russell and the Fred Barton Museum of the Old West, 1937-1967Sixteen¿¿¿Barton and the Hollywood CowboysSeventeen¿¿¿Ruminating on Guys, Gussies and Morons at Trail's EndEpilogueChapter NotesBibliographyIndex...

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Authors Larry Weirather
Publisher McFarland
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.07.2015
 
EAN 9780786499137
ISBN 978-0-7864-9913-7
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies

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