Myers, Walter Dean  (, 1937 - 2014) <br/><br/>
The journal of Joshua Loper :  a Black cowboy 
/ by Walter Dean Myers. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : Scholastic  , 1999. 
 - 158 p.  : illus.  ; 20 cm. 
 - My name is America .
 - A Dear America Book. .
<br/><br/> Joshua Loper is a fictional character created by the author.  Includes one fold-out map of the Chisholm trail across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 1871 in back of book. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780590026918 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cattle drives---Fiction<br/>Cowboys----Juvenile fiction<br/>African Americans----Fiction<br/>Diaries----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West (U.S.)----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.M992  / Jo 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>JUV FIC MYE