01281cam a2200325 4500 77125742 TxAuBib 20060907120000.0 980327s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 98018661 9780590026918 0590026917 DLC DLC BGU TxAuBib Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- 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 "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. 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. 20060907. Cattle drives Fiction. Cowboys Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Diaries Fiction. West (U.S) Fiction. My name is America.