Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China: How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East - Softcover
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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 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.
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About the Author
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.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 226 Pages Indexed. Pristine new condition. No defects noted and interior text pages are flawless. 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 this extraordinary adventure and enterprise to supply horses for the feudal warlords, and only cowboys recruited from the ranches and rodeo arenas of the Western states had the skill to herd thousands of horses across Siberia, Mongolia, to China. Yet Fred Barton himself remains enigmaticaa cowboy, adventurer, promoter, who had his eyes on many prizes. Barton not only took his version of the Old West to Russia and China, but also to Hollywood at a time when the motion picture industry was constructing a myth of the Old West just as open range cowboy life was disappearing. This Montana bronc buster deliberately obscured parts of his life. Along the way, Barton became part of the network of unofficial U.S. intelligence in the Far East, bred a new type of horse, and tirelessly defended the values of the open range cowboy. His legacy lives on, affecting world events today, as told in this illustrated biography. Contents in 17 Chapters: Fort Keogh Days 1889-1905, A Young Bronc Peeler in Miles City 1905-1911, Vladivostok and the World's Largest Horse Ranch 1911-1912, Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em, The British-American Tobacco Co. 1912-1916, Horses for the Warlords The Longest Drive 1917, 15th Infantry Cowboys and U.S. Intelligence 1917, Khabarovsk, Siberia to Hilar Manchuria 1917, Hilar Manchuria to Urga Mongolia, 1917, Across the Gobi Urga to Kalgan 1917, Final Leg Kalgan to Taiyuanfu 1917, Montana Cowboys in the Celestial Empire 1918-1920, When to Hold 'Em, When to Fold 'Em 1920-1937, Poor Little Rich Boy and Princess Xenia 1920, The Many Wives of a Lifelong Bachelor Here and Abroad, Life Without Warlords C.M. Russell and the Fred Barton Museum of the Old West 1937-1967, Barton and the Hollywood Cowboys, and Ruminating on Guys Gussies and Morons at Trail's End. Plus Epilogue, Chapter Notes, and Bibliography. The cover is Fred Barton in Siberia 1912. The horse may be a Russian half-and-half but Barton brought his own saddle and tack. Illustrated with black and whte photographs. Seller Inventory # 17239
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