The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871

by Walter Dean Myers

Series: My Name is America (3), Dear America Collections (My Name Is America: Westward Expansion, 1871), My Story

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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.

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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.

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