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My heroes, my people : African Americans and Native Americans in the West / portraits by Morgan Monceaux ; text by Morgan Monceaux and Ruth Katcher.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection F596.3.N4 K38 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monceaux, Morgan, author, illustrator.
- Katcher, Ruth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America.
- Multiracial people--West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Multiracial people.
- West (U.S.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--West (U.S.).
- Indians of North America--West (U.S.).
- Multiracial people--West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--Biography.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 63, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Frances Foster Books : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1999]
- Summary:
- Presents brief portraits of an assortment of African Americans, Native peoples, and men and women of mixed heritage who played roles in the history of the American West.
- Contents:
- The legends: Montezuma
- Pocahontas
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- The fur trade: Jim Beckwourth
- The Bongas
- The cowboys: Nat Love
- Ned Huddleston
- Ben Hodges
- Criminals and lawmen: Crawford Goldsby
- The Rufus Buck gang
- Bass Reaves
- The stagecoach driver: George Monroe
- The women: Biddy Mason
- Clara Brown
- Mary Fields
- Luticcia Parsons Butler
- Elvira Conley
- A mail-order bride
- Cathy Williams
- Buffalo soldiers: Moses Williams
- Native Americans: Outina
- John Horse
- Little Raven
- Ely Parker
- Red Cloud
- Sitting Bull
- Standing Bear
- Kintpuash
- Chief Joseph
- Cochise
- Geronimo
- African Americans and Native Americans united: Edmonia Lewis
- John Taylor & Kitty Cloud
- Diana Fletcher
- Juanita
- The rodeo: Bill Pickett.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374307709
- 9780374307707
- OCLC:
- 40126542
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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