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Title The true West : real stories about black cowboys, women sharpshooters, Native American rodeo stars, pioneering vaqueros, and the unsung explorers, builders, and heroes who shaped the American West / by Mifflin Lowe ; illustrations by Wiliam Luong.
Author Lowe, Mifflin, author.
Publication Info. [United States] : Bushel & Peck Books, [2020]
©2020
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  J 978 LOW    AVAILABLE/SHELVING
 Chickasaw  J 978 LOW    Check Shelves
 Fairview Shores  J 978 LOW    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J 978 LOW    Check Shelves
 South Creek  J 978 LOW    Check Shelves
 Southeast  J 978 LOW    Check Shelves
 West Oaks  J 978 LOW    Check Shelves
Edition First edition
Description 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Summary "I've written this book in hopes that its stories--and the incredible people they're about--will pull our country closer together through a shared history of the American West. In its own way the Wild West was a melting post every bit as much as the cities of the East Coast--and maybe even more so. While the American cowboy is, deservedly, a cultural icon and part of our national mythology, what many people don't know, is that a significant percentage of America's cowboys were African American, Latino, and Native American. Many cowboys were even... cowgirls." -- excerpt from author's note page 7.
Contents Bill Pickett -- Annie Oakley -- Nat Love -- Buffalo soldiers -- Mexican cowboys -- The Escalante expedition -- Patricia and Martín de León -- Bass Reeves -- Mamie Hafley (Elba Mae Ghent) -- Jesse Stahl -- Cathay Williams -- Levi Strauss -- Jews in the American West -- Jackson Sundown -- Mary Fields (Stagecoach Mary) -- James Butler Hickok (Wild Bill Hickok) -- Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary) -- Wagon trains -- Charley Willis -- Henry O. Flipper -- William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill Cody) -- Fox Hastings -- Sam Steward (Bronco Sam) -- Chinese railroad workers -- Clothes.
Subject Cowgirls -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Cowboys -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Cowboys -- Mexico -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Jews -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Wagon trains -- Juvenile literature.
Railroad construction workers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Clothing and dress -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Southwest, New -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
Instructional and educational works.
Illustrated works.
Subject Summer reading program 2021.
SRP 2021.
Added Author Luong, Wiliam, illustrator.
Added Title Real stories about black cowboys, women sharpshooters, Native American rodeo stars, pioneering vaqueros, and the unsung explorers, builders, and heroes who shaped the American West
ISBN 9781733633512 (hardcover) : $19.99
1733633510 (hardcover)
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