TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myers,Walter Dean
TI  - The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy 
SN  - 0590026917
AV  - PZ7.M992 Jo 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Cattle drives
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cowboys
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Diaries
KW  - West (U.S.)
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
ER  -