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

Lowe, Mifflin (author.). Luong, Wiliam, (illustrator.).

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 per\centage of America's cowboys were African American, Latino, and Native American. Many cowboys were even...cowgirls." -- excerpt from author's note page 7.

Record details

ISBN: 9781733633512
ISBN: 1733633510
Physical Description: print
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: [United States] : Bushel & Peck Books, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

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Formatted Contents Note:

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.