A Rare and Dangerous Beast

<p>Large Print</p><p><br></p><p>When Anatoly Lukyanov arrives in the U.S. during the California Gold Rush he is just a wide-eyed idealistic Russian/Buriat kid in love with the idea and ideals of America. Soon he finds work he loves as a cowboy along with a new American name: Nate Luck. Over the next forty years Nate experiences both the best and the worst that America has to offer - as a cowboy a soldier an adopted member of the Nez Perce tribe a deputy sheriff and a prisoner awaiting trial for murder. Through it all he fights for freedom and justice alongside or against iconic Westerners like Colonel John Chivington Captain Silas Soule Chief Black Kettle Chief Joseph Yellow Wolf General Oliver O. Howard Nate Champion Tom Horn and many others.</p><p> </p><p>Nate's story is one of love and heartbreak triumph and tragedy joy and sorrow hope and despair high adventure and darkest horror but even when things are darkest Nate never loses his dedication to the American ideals of freedom justice and equality under the law.</p>