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The Cowboy and the Cossack

by Clair Huffaker · 1973

On a cold spring day in 1880, fifteen American cowboys sail into Vladivostock with a herd of 500 cattle for delivery to a famine stricken town deep in Siberia. Assigned to accompany them is a band of Cossacks, Russia’s elite… more

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I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.
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i am i and you are you and we are both each other too
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That bastard c’n spot a gnat from three miles off, an’ then read its mind.
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She gave me the kind of a look and smile that I guess is what tends to turn bachelors into married men.
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Simply thinking and speaking of action is philosophy, of course. Taking action is something else. And, as with the swan, the greatest and ultimate test of a man taking action must also be his willingness, while loving life, to give his life for something he loves.
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Each man is his own poem, Levi. Keep yours a good one.
am i and you are you and we are both each other too
Checkmate is from the Persian shah mat, which means ‘the king is dead.
no man’s death can ever give safe passage to any other man’s life. At

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On a cold spring day in 1880, fifteen American cowboys sail into Vladivostock with a herd of 500 cattle for delivery to a famine stricken town deep in Siberia. Assigned to accompany them is a band of Cossacks, Russia’s elite horsemen and warriors. From the first day, distrust between the two groups disrupts the cattle drive. But as they overcome hardships and trials along the trail, a deep understanding and mutual respect develops between the men in both groups.

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First published
1973
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4.29 (2k ratings)

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