Away west
By: by Patricia C. McKissack.
Series: Scraps of time
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Runaways -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Horses -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.