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Paperback / softback. New. 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 an extraordinary enterprise to supply horses for the feudal warlords. Yet Fred Barton himself remains enigmatic...a cowboy, adventurer, promoter, who had his eyes on many prizes.
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- Title Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China: How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East
- Author Larry Weirather
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 236
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina
- Date 2015-11-11
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780786499137 / 0786499133
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Intelligence officers - United States, Nicholas - Friends and associates
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015040410
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2015. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. 7" x 10. 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…
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