1870s -- fiction

Away West

1870s -- fiction
African American children's literature
Exodusters -- fiction
Growing Up in the Old West

By Patricia C. McKissack

In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.

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The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy

1870s -- fiction
African American children's literature
Cowboys -- fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- fiction
My Name is America Series
Growing Up in the Old West

By Walter Dean Myers

Two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Myers writes about an African-American boy's struggles with his first cattle drive in 1871 and the racial prejudices of the day.

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1870s -- fiction

Away West

By Patricia C. McKissack

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The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy

By Walter Dean Myers

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