Myers, Walter Dean,  1937- <br/><br/>
The journal of Joshua Loper :  a Black cowboy / 
by Walter Dean Myers. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  1999. 
 - 158 p. :  ill., maps ;  20 cm. 
 - My name is America .
<br/><br/> "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. 
<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/><label>ISBN: </label>0590026917 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98018661  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cattle drives--Fiction.<br/>Cowboys--Fiction.<br/>Afro-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>[Fic]