The journal of Joshua Loper : a Black cowboy /
by Walter Dean Myers.
- New York : Scholastic, 1999.
- 158 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 20 cm.
- Dear America My name is America .
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.