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Book The Cowboy and the Cossack

Download or read book The Cowboy and the Cossack written by Clair Huffaker and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1880, a group of American cowboys joined by a band of cossacks trek across the siberian wilderness to deliver cattle to a starving town.

Book The Cossack Cowboy

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  • Author : Lester S. Taube
  • Publisher : CCB Publishing
  • Release : 2012-11-25
  • ISBN : 1927360951
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Cossack Cowboy written by Lester S. Taube and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Sanderson, a thoroughgoing young Victorian gentleman, is having a high old time with a regiment of Don Cossacks, fighting, raping, pillaging and burning in the time-honored manner, when he is recalled to England to inherit a dukedom. Soon he is on his travels again, this time to the Territory of New Mexico where the old Duke had bought but never taken up the Three Barbs ranch. Unfortunately, Paul is not the only person who is interested in that particular piece of real estate, and he soon learns that a land-hungry railroad tycoon wants to have him killed to possess it. What happens when Paul meets the daughter of his would-be assassin on a wolf-infested mountain, starts a chain of horrific events that will keep the reader on the edge of his chair right up to the startling climax. About the Author Lester Taube was born of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey. He began soldiering in a horse artillery regiment while in his teens, where in four years he rose from the grade of private to the exalted rank of private first class. During World War II, he became an infantry platoon leader and participated in operations in the Bismarck Archipelago, was attached to the 3rd Marines for action on Iwo Jima, and finally combat on Okinawa, the last battle of the war. After leaving the army and recuperating from wounds and malaria, he became general manager of a 400 employee electronic company in California, manager of a 450 employee paper stock company in Pennsylvania, and finally opened a logging and pulpwood cutting operation in Canada. Called back to duty during the Korea Police Action, he served as an advisor to the Turkish army, then as an intelligence officer and company commander in Korea. During the Vietnam period, he was stationed in France and Germany as a general staff officer working in intelligence and war plans. Prior to retirement as a full colonel, he moved to a small village in the mountains of North Tyrol, Austria, and kept a boat for five years on the Cote d'Azur, France. He began writing novels while in France, and after producing four books, which were published in a number of countries, and selling two for motion pictures, he stopped - "as there was heavy soldiering to do and children to raise." Returning to the U.S. after 13 years overseas, he worked as an economic development specialist for the State of New Jersey helping companies move to New Jersey or expand therein. He has four children, all born in different countries.

Book The Cowboy and the Cossack

Download or read book The Cowboy and the Cossack written by Clair Huffaker and published by Amazon Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys take cattle from Montana to Vladivostok, and Cossacks join them to drive the cattle across Siberia.

Book The Cowboy and the Cossack

    Book Details:
  • Author : Huffaker, Clair
  • Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780671783792
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy and the Cossack written by Huffaker, Clair and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cowboy and the Cossack

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  • Author : Merline Lovelace
  • Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780373076574
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy and the Cossack written by Merline Lovelace and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Intim. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alezandra Jordan had been reluctantly appointer leader of her late grandfather's Russian tribe. Her people had plenty of troubles, but were particularly short on weapons - armed men! So when Nate Sloan showed up, addegedly to deliver a champion stallion, Alexandra couldn't help being suspicious - even though she was as aware of his charms as any of her love-starved tribe mates...

Book The Cossack as Cowboy  Soldier  and Citizen

Download or read book The Cossack as Cowboy Soldier and Citizen written by Poultney Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1894* with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cossack Cowboy

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  • Author : Richard Possett Sr
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-22
  • ISBN : 9781724106681
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Cossack Cowboy written by Richard Possett Sr and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casimir Josper Czyznikiewicz grows into a rugged American cowboy. A boy, Kazik, is born in Poland and raised in East Texas as Charles Joseph Kane. Upon the murder of his parents, Kane executes eight Windstar Ranch hands. The action is blood vengeance, zemsta krwi. These are honor code killings according to the Cossack way, Kozacka droga.Now a fugitive, Kane is pursued by a posse of hardened gunslingers. He joins a Texas cattle drive to evade capture and the hangman's noose. On the trail, he makes friends and foes, confronting rustlers, stampedes, and savage Indians.With deceits and deflections, the manslayer outwits the Texas posse. In his journey, Kane tussles with drunken ruffians, has assignations with doxies and dolls, and brushes up against vigilantes. As an outlaw, the Cossack cowboy enters Rawlins Springs, Wyoming Territory, wanted dead or alive.Cossack Cowboy is Book One of the Red Ichor Trilogy

Book The Cowboy and the Cossack

Download or read book The Cowboy and the Cossack written by Merline Lovelace and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack

Download or read book The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack written by H.M. Naqvi and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature follows his debut Home Boy with“an unforgettable romp across love, life, and everything else” (Akhil Sharma, author of Family Life). Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a “mythopoetic legacy” of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan heart of Pakistan, Abdullah has lost his zeal. A surprise invitation for a night out from his old friend Felix Pinto snaps Abdullah out of his funk and saddles him with a ward—Pinto’s adolescent grandson Bosco. As Abdullah plays mentor to Bosco, he also attracts the romantic attentions of Jugnu, an enigmatic siren with links to the mob. All the while Abdullah’s brothers’ plot to evict him from the family estate. Now he must to try to save his home—or face losing his last connection to his familial past. Anarchic, erudite, and rollicking, with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack is a joyride of a story set against a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the world’s most vibrant cities. “H.M. Naqvi’s remarkable Cossack is the Pakistani Falstaff, the Tristram Shandy of ‘Currachee,’ spinning yarns inside yarns, allusive, affirming, and grandly comic.”—Joshua Ferris, author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour “Wild, wise, and tender . . . Every page in this book is a playground, and each sentence an absolute thrill and joy to read.”—Patricia Engel, author of The Veins of the Ocean “Completely original in form and sensibility.”—Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award

Book Book Lust

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Pearl
  • Publisher : Sasquatch Books
  • Release : 2009-09-29
  • ISBN : 1570616590
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.

Book Red Sky at Noon

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  • Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Publisher : Pegasus Books
  • Release : 2018-12-11
  • ISBN : 9781681779072
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Red Sky at Noon written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines—but is there a traitor among them? The only thing Benya can truly trust is his horse, Silver Socks, and that he will find no mercy in onslaught of Hitler’s troops as they push East.Spanning ten epic days, between Benya’s war on the grasslands of southern Russia and Stalin’s intrigues in the Kremlin, between Benya’s intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin’s daughter and a war correspondent, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery, and survival—where betrayal is a constant companion, death just a heartbeat away, and love, however fleeting, offers a glimmer of redemption.

Book Buffalo Bill s Wild West

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  • Author : Joy S. Kasson
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2015-12-22
  • ISBN : 1466895373
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book Buffalo Bill s Wild West written by Joy S. Kasson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo Bill's Wild West presents a fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainment Canada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and Indians--and Annie Oakley!--galloped past on spirited horses, sharpshooters exploded glass balls tossed high in the air, and cavalry troops arrived just in time to save a stagecoach from Indian attack. Vivid posters on billboards everywhere made William Cody, the show's originator and star, a world-renowned figure. Joy S. Kasson's important new book traces Cody's rise from scout to international celebrity, and shows how his image was shaped. Publicity stressed his show's "authenticity" yet audiences thrilled to its melodrama; fact and fiction converged in a performance that instantly became part of the American tradition. But how, precisely, did that come about? How, for example, did Cody use his audience's memories of the Civil War and the Indian wars? He boasted that his show included participants in the recent conflicts it presented theatrically, yet he also claimed it evoked "memories" of America's bygone greatness. Kasson's shrewd, engaging study--richly illustrated--in exploring the disappearing boundary between entertainment and public events in American culture, shows us just how we came to imagine our memories.

Book Buffalo Bill s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World

Download or read book Buffalo Bill s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World written by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful full color litho cover, stagecoach under attack from Indians, cameo portrait of W.F. Cody.

Book Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy

Download or read book Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy written by Dirk Benedict and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling memoir Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy tells the fascinating story of actor Dirk Benedict’s journey from the big sky country of Montana to the hustle and hype of Hollywood. It also describes his odyssey of self-discovery and growth as he changes from struggling actor to celebrity, from meat eater to vegetarian, from cancer victim to cancer victor. Brilliantly written—insightful, witty, and always challenging—Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy may change the way you perceive actors, and even make you reconsider the truths in your own life.

Book Riders of the Purple Sage

Download or read book Riders of the Purple Sage written by Zane Grey and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her. Withersteen gets help from a number of friends, including Bern Venters and Lassiter, a notorious gunman and killer of Mormons. She struggles with her "blindness" to the evil nature of her church and its leaders, and tries to keep Venters and Lassiter from killing the adversaries who are slowly ruining her.

Book Frederic Remington and the West

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  • Author : Ben Merchant Vorpahl
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-01-09
  • ISBN : 1477305211
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Frederic Remington and the West written by Ben Merchant Vorpahl and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederic Remington and the West sheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington. This study of the complex relationship between Remington and the American West focuses on the artist’s imagination and how it expressed itself. Ben Merchant Vorpahl takes into account all the dimensions of Remington’s extensive work—from journalism to fiction, sculpture, and painting. He traces the events of Remington’s life and makes extensive use of literary and art criticism and nineteenth-century American social cultural and military history in interpreting his work. Vorpahl reveals Remington as a talented, sensitive, and sometimes neurotic American whose work reflects with peculiar force the excitement and distress of the period between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. Remington was not a “western” artist in the conventional sense; neither was he a historian: he lacked the historian’s breadth of vision and discipline, expressing himself not through analysis but through synthesis. Vorpahl shows that, even while Remington catered to the sometimes maudlin, sometimes jingoistic tastes of his public and his editors, his resourceful imagination was at work devising a far more demanding and worthwhile design—a composite work, executed in prose, pictures, and bronze. This body of work, as the author demonstrates, demands to be regarded as an interrelated whole. Here guilt, shame, and personal failure are honestly articulated, and death itself is confronted as the artist’s chief subject. Because Remington was so prolific a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, and because his subjects, techniques, and media were so apparently diverse, the deeper continuity of his work had not previously been recognized. This study is a major contribution to our understanding of an important American artist. In addition, Vorpahl illuminates the interplay between history, artistic consciousness, and the development of America’s sense of itself during Remington’s lifetime.

Book A Literary History of the American West

Download or read book A Literary History of the American West written by Western Literature Association (U.S.) and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.