Fifteen Montana cowboys sail into Vladivostok with a herd of five hundred longhorns, ready to cross a thousand miles of Siberian wilderness. When a band of Cossacks, Russias elite horsemen and warriors, shows up to escort these rough and ready Americans to their destination, the clash of cultures begins. The feud between American six shooter and Russian saber is embodied in two men: Shad, the leader of the Montana cowboys, and Rostov, the Cossack commander. Nature and man are enemies that will force them to work togetherand a ruthless Tartar army that stands between them and their destination. The code of the cowboy West and the credo of the Cossack East seem to be two different measures of a manbut honor and courage are the same in any language when a common enemy must be faced. Lonesome Dove meets Dr. Zhivago in this rousing tale of West meets East in the days of the Russian Tsars and the Wild West.
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Publication Date: 04 Dec 2012
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781612183695
About Clair Huffaker
Clair Huffaker was a legendary western screenwriter and author. His screenplays include The Comancheros Hellfighters and War Wagon starring John Wayne along with Flaming Star Seven Ways from Sundown Rio Conchos and Posse from Hell. Huffaker also wrote for TV western series such as Bonanza The Rifleman The Virginian and Rawhide including eighteen episodes of Lawman. Many of his movies were based on his bestselling books. Huffaker was a cowboy a champion boxer a part-time smuggler and a writer for Time Inc. in New York. He served in the Navy in World War II studied in Europe and eventually returned to the US where he began his career as a freelance writer. He wrote short stories screenplays and novels at his home in Los Angeles which was a gathering place for actors stuntmen directors and writers who could regularly be found there shooting pool playing poker and exchanging tall tales.