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.