The adventurous deeds of Deadwood Jones
By: by Helen Hemphill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Front Street
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Asheville, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781590786376
Subjects: Wheeler, Edward L. -- 1854 or 5-1885 -- Fiction; Cowboys -- Fiction; Cattle drives -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Cousins -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.