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

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The work 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 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

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

Title remainder

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

Statement of responsibility

by Mifflin Lowe ; illustrations by Wiliam Luong

Title variation

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

Creator

• Lowe, Mifflin

Contributor

• Luong, Wiliam

Author

• Lowe, Mifflin

Illustrator

• Luong, Wiliam

Subject

• Biographies
• Biographies
• Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Clothing and dress -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Cowboys -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Cowboys -- Mexico -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Cowgirls -- History -- Juvenile literature
• History
• Illustrated works
• Illustrated works
• Instructional and educational works
• Instructional and educational works
• Jews -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Railroad construction workers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Southwest, New -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Wagon trains -- Juvenile literature
• West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Instructional and educational works
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• History
• Biographies
• Illustrated works

Language

eng

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

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

XKK

Dewey number

978

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

juvenile