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Fred Barton and the warlords' horses of China : how an American cowboy brought the Old West to the Far East /
- Title
- Fred Barton and the warlords' horses of China : how an American cowboy brought the Old West to the Far East / Larry Weirather.
- Author
- Weirather, Larry, 1944-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- viii, 226 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Barton, Fred, 1889-1967
- Cowboys > Montana > Miles City > Biography
- Nicholas > II, > Emperor of Russia, > 1868-1918 > Friends and associates
- Ranch life > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > History
- Cowboys > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > Biography
- Barton, Fred, 1889-1967 > Travel > China
- Intelligence officers > United States > Biography
- Americans > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > Biography
- Warlordism > China > History > 20th century
- Horse breeders > Russia (Federation) > Siberia > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.
- Contents
- 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, 193-1967 -- Barton and the Hollywood cowboys -- Ruminating on guys, gussies, and morons at trail's end.
- ISBN
- 9780786499137
- 0786499133
- LCCN
- 2015040410
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library