The journal of Joshua Loper
Subtitle: a Black cowboy
By: by Walter Dean Myers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: My name is America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Cattle drives -- Fiction; Cowboys -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Diaries -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
Notes: "Joshua Loper is a fictional character created by the author"--T.p. verso.
Includes one fold-out map of the Chisholm trail across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 1871 in back of book.