Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China: How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786499133
ISBN13:9780786499137
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:McFarland & Company
Length:236 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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