America Through the Eyes of a Russian Cowboy

19 hrs. 56 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Anatoly Shimansky

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

Anatoly Shimansky is a person who is both ordinary and remarkable at the same time. A Russian by habits and by how he perceives life, he decided to get to know America without intermediaries—and to introduce America to himself. How? It turned out that all it took was to buy a gelding, name him Vanya, hitch him to a small wagon, and travel calmly and slowly from the US East Coast to the West…

Contents:

A friend’s preface: America through slow eyes
Introduction
Beginning
Parry County
The Past
The Pass
Father Mikhail
A Washboard
Washington in Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
The First National Road
Presidentburger
Quaker College
Easter
Land and People
Tom Sawyer
House spirits
The West on the East
Veterans
Ki-Bar
Lincoln
Wahoo
Oceola
Horse forging
Sandy storm
Colonel Cody
Ogalala
Mountain oysters
Memorial Day
Scpotykach
Fort Laramie
“The Meat-Eaters”
Zaicelopes
FORT KORT
Guests
Rendezvous
School of poisonous spiders on the road to a ranch of rattlesnakes
Christian
Stargazers / prospectors
Independence Day
Pass
David Grant
Fossils
Bear Lake
Theater
Portneuf River
Ponds
Poet
Prairie on fire
Mountain house
Promise-holders
Sounds of music
Oregon
Baker City
Blue Mountains
Proselytes
Indians
Freighters
Columbia River
Congressman
Mount Hood
Beauty of Oregon
Portland
Astoria
Coast
Raymond
Olympia
Seattle
Whidbey Island
Borderlands
Canada
Point Roberts
Back to blessed America