TY - BOOK AU - Myers,Walter Dean TI - The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy T2 - My name is America SN - 0590026917 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - African Americans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Cattle drives KW - Cowboys KW - Diaries KW - West (U.S.) KW - Fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd 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 -