Just finished this one today, it had been on my bookshelves for probably 10 years or so. Glad I finally got around to getting it read. It was a good read, a little different sort of thing. From the 1850s a guy travels to Russia, wanting to see the people especially in Eastern Russia/Siberia. He is dag man--early version of photograghs--and wants to take dag/photos of the common people he meets. Sonja is a poet that strikes the wrong person that offended her--a guy that leads warriors for the Tsar doing his bidding in ruthless ways. This guy vows revenge on her. Sonja and Jack--the dag guy--eventually meet up and are on the run from the bad guy. They run into another bad guy out on the steppes where Sonja is kidnapped. Jack meets others and with his American guns is able to rally competitors the go after bad guy #2 and while doing so bad guy #1 joins in the fight & takes Sonja away. Jack again goes after her. Ending with Jack getting Sonja. A decent story, lots of riding and traveling--a map somewhere in here would have added to the story I think. Eventually all the riding and tracking, etc sort of gets lost to me--just too much but I know that is sort of in the title.
I have posted it on PBS & it is the only copy in system so maybe will get requested, will see. I have pulled 5 books from my PBS shelf--ones not going anywhere and other copies on PBS for 3 of them. Other 2 were only copy but were shelf published books--I bought from library sale so will donate back to library to sell again.