"Cowhands Fiction." . . "West (U.S.)" . . "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."@en . . . . . . . "Dear America: The journal of Joshua Loper : a Black cowboy"@en . . . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . "Juvenile works"@en . . . . . "Chisholm Trail" . . "Diaries Fiction." . . "African Americans Fiction." . .