Fred Barton and the warlords' horses of China
Subtitle: how an American cowboy brought the Old West to the Far East
By: Larry Weirather
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780786499137
Subjects: Friends and associates; Intelligence officers; Horse breeders; Travel; Americans; Biography; Warlordism; Cowboys; Ranch life; History
Description: "Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch in Siberia to supply the Russian military. 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fort Keogh days, 1889/1905; title: A young bronc peeler in Miles City, 1905/1911; title: Vladivostok and the world's largest horse ranch, 1911/1912; title: "Smoke 'em if you've got 'em" : the British-American Tobacco Co., 1912/1916; title: Horses for the warlords : the longest horse drive, 1917; title: 15th Infantry cowboys and U.S. intelligence, 1917; title: Khabarovsk, Siberia to Hilar, Manchuria, 1917; title: Hilar, Manchuria to Urga, Mongolia, 1917; title: Across the Gobi : Urga to Kalgan, 1917; title: Final leg : Kalgan to Taiyuanfu, 1917; title: Montana cowboys in the Celestial Empire, 1918/1920; title: When to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, 1920/1937; title: Poor little rich boy and Princess Xenia, 1920; title: The many wives of a lifelong bachelor, here and abroad; title: Life without warlords : C.M. Russell and the Fred Barton Museum of the Old West, 1937/1967; title: Barton and the Hollywood cowboys; title: Ruminating on guys, gussies, and morons at trail's end; title: Epilogue.