Richard Alexis Georgian

About The Author:
Richard A. Georgian was raised in St. Louis. He attended public, private and British Missionary schools. He graduated Cum Laude from University of Maryland, College Park. His youth was spent in the USA and India. His first 22 year career was in U.S.Navy communications. He spent 10 years in corporate America as a Senior Systems Analyst and Instructor. His present career has included researching the lives of Georgians in America’s Wild West Shows, and the early American communist party. He resides in Lehigh Acres, Florida, and was for three years president of the Gulf Coast Writers Association.
"The author knows this field very well; his grandfather Alexis Gogokhia-Georgian was one of these trick riders. Cossacks, Indians and Buffalo Bill is a remarkable book, scrupulously researched, detailed, creatively imagined and wonderfully told. This is the book to be savored."
Irakli Makharadze
Author,Wild West Georgians & Gurian Outlaw


Follow the adventures, romances and tragedies of Georgian men and women who were seduced by the promise and opportunity of making a living in America. Their thrilling feats of horsemanship captured the imagination of the American cowboys to become the gold standard of trick riding through today. Join us as we pull back the canvas and peek behind the scenes into the lives of those who felt both honored and cursed.