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Title The adventurous deeds of Deadwood Jones / Helen Hemphill.
Author Hemphill, Helen, 1955-
Publication Info. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2008.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J FIC HEM    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description 228 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
Subject Cowboys -- Fiction.
Cattle drives -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 5-1885 -- Fiction.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Fiction.
Cowboys -- Juvenile fiction.
Cattle drives -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Cousins -- Juvenile fiction.
Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 5-1885 -- Juvenile fiction.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN 9781590786376 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $16.95
1590786378 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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