TY - BOOK AU - Myers,Walter Dean TI - The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy SN - 0590026917 U1 - Fic 21 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Cowhands KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - African Americans KW - Diaries KW - Historical Fiction KW - Westward Expansion KW - Poineer & Frontier Life KW - Chisholm Trail KW - West (U.S.) N1 - 3-7; 5; 1000; Lexile 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 -