Title: Black storm comin'
First published: 2005
Description: Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
Subjects: Pony express, Frontier and pioneer life, Racially mixed people, Slavery, Fiction, Self-acceptance, Identity, History, Juvenile fiction, Identity (Psychology), Children's fiction, Pony express, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Identity, fiction, Racially mixed people, fiction, Self-acceptance, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, United states, history, 1815-1861, fiction
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
Time periods: 1815-1861, 19th century
LC classification: PZ7.W69057 Bl 2005