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c2008., Front Street Call No: ADVENTURE F HEM Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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-- Deadwood Jones2011., Pre-adolescent, Boyds Mills Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Boyds Mills Pre Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: 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.
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[1998], c1999., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: 92 BONETTA Edition: Advance reader's ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.
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[2018]., Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on a series of interviews, the author relates the slave narrative of Cudjo Lewis.
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2003., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press Call No: 978 RAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: The library of the westward expansionSummary Note: This book relates the history of the African American cowboys who played an integral part in the building of the American West.
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2000., Juvenile, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: 978 .00496073 Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperba Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Focuses on the experiences of African Americans as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.
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1999., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 973.71 KAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biographical history of influential African American pioneers and freedom fighters in the Midwest, including Sara Jane Woodson, Peter Clark, and Dred Scott.
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c2006., Pelican Pub. Co. Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Realizing that his future lies in owning land, not just being free, a young man raised as a slave becomes a buffalo soldier--a member of an all-black cavalry regiment formed to protect white settlers from Indians, bandits, and outlaws, and that later fought in the Spanish American War. Includes historical note.
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c2006., Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: 978 GLASS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Graphic library.Summary Note: A graphic interpretation of the lives of Buffalo Soldiers in the American West and beyond. Describes how the Congress created African American military units to protect settlers from the Indians. Documents the soldiers' roles in arresting outlaws on the Great Plains, chasing Mexican bandits in the Southwestern desert, delivering mail in Midwestern winters, and defending America in the Spanish-American War, World War II, and the Korean War when the U.S. military desegregated.
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2006., Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: 741.5 GLA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Graphic library. Graphic historySummary Note: This book, in graphic-novel format, tells the story of the African American soldiers known as Buffalo Soldiers, who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Frontier of the United States.
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c2006., Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: 741.5 Graphic Novel GLASER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Graphic library. Graphic historySummary Note: This book, in graphic-novel format, tells the story of the African American soldiers known as Buffalo Soldiers, who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Frontier of the United States.
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2020., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: SUPERNATURAL F IRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her. But she won't be in it alone. Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by, and that Jane needs her too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not. Watching Jane's back, however, is more than she bargained for, and it's up to Katherine to keep hope alive, even as she begins to fear that there is no happily ever after for girls like her.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Supernatural Fic Ireland Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Dread Nation Volume: Book 2Summary Note: In 1880s America, African American friends Jane McKeene and Katherine Deveraux, trained in combat to protect rich white people from zombies, have escaped the horrors of the maniacal preacher from Summerland and now decide to journey to California to find Jane's mother. But their past follows them, as does a horde of zombies.
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2005., Facts on File, Inc. Call No: 966 CON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great empires of the pastSummary Note: Beginning around 1200 the Mali, Songhay and Ghana Empires spread their influence across the western horn of Africa, heavily influenced by Islam in their later periods. They flourished under a series of powerful leaders including Mansa Musa.
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By Haskins, Jim1999., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 973.8 HAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book discusses the conditions of African Americans in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and the migration of many former slaves, led by such men as Benjamin Singleton and Henry Adams, to the West looking for a better life. Their destination was mainly Kansas and Oklamona, involving about 20,000 people who became known as the Exodusters.
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By Alter, Judy2001., compass Point Books Call No: 978 ALT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin
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By Alter, Judy2001., Pre-adolescent, Compass Point Call No: 978 .0082 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We the peopleSummary Note: Describes the way of life and social conditions of Native, African and Hispanic American women in the American West.
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c2001., Compass Point Books Call No: 920 ALT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: We the peopleSummary Note: Important events and people shaped the United States including the women. Through this interesting text and historically photos and drawing, see what the women of the Old West did.
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1999., Juvenile, Frances Foster Books Call No: 920.078 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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. Such as, Montezuma, Pocahontas, Clara Brown, Moses Williams, Sitting Bull, Cheif Joseph, Geronimo.
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1993., Time-Life Books Call No: 973 PAP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African Americans voices of triumphSummary Note: The Songhai Empire, slavery and abolition, the old west, military and civil rights.
