The Cowboy and the Cossack, Clair Huffaker
The Cowboy and the Cossack, Clair Huffaker
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The Cowboy and the Cossack

Author: Clair Huffaker

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2012

Synopsis

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, Russia’s 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 together—and 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 man—but 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on December 05, 2020

Wow!! Couldn’t put this book down. What a wonderful novel. I can thank my Goodreads friend, Still for turning me onto Claire Huffaker. He recommended The Guns of Rio Conchos. I read it and immediately picked up the rest of Huffaker’s books. The Cowboy and the Cossacks was one of those and is going d......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on September 07, 2019

The opening chapters of The Cowboy and the Cossack promise a look into the effects of cross-cultural immersion. A small group of cowboys from the United States finds themselves in eastern Russia, moving a herd cattle to a village in Siberia while being escorted by a group of Russian cossacks. While......more

Goodreads review by David on February 04, 2017

One of the best books I've read in a while. Deserves to be considered a classic. Really!......more

Goodreads review by Lillian on March 03, 2013

In 1880 fifteen Montana Cowboys are commissioned to take five hundred Texas longhorns across a thousand miles of Siberia. They are escorted by the same number of Russian Cossacks. When these rough Americans meet Russian warriors, the clash of cultures inevitably follows, but the universal language h......more

Goodreads review by Sridhar on July 10, 2010

Being unfamiliar with Western novels, my knowledge of the code of the cowboy - the credo - has come from cinema. If there was one steadfast pillar of the credo which I learned from John Ford's My Darling Clementine and The Searchers, from Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West and Don Siegel's......more

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