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Outer Mongolia, says Sochurek, is basically two nations. One is the timeless meadowlands of Central Asia where nomads pasture their flocks and herds just as they did centuries ago under the rule of their great hero-king, Genghis Khan. Outer Mongolia has more yurts (circular, felt-covered tents) than houses, and more cattle (21 million) than people (1,000,000). Mongols are born to the saddle, lasso their horses with nooses at the end of long poles, make a strong wine from fermented cow's milk and feast on such dainties as yak butter delicately flavored with yak urine...
...became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe, as the young Temujin did, on a hairy little Mongol pony? You bet your yurt he doesn't. The sleek horseflesh in this picture would just about last one night in the average steppe pasture at 10 below...
...Once we rode up into the mountains to spend a weekend with a Tatar family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...