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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781590786376
ISBN: 1590786378
Label: Front Street
Manufacturer: Front Street
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 228
Publication Date: 2008-11
Publisher: Front Street
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Front Street
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When Prometheus Jones wins a horse with a raffle ticket he got from Pernie Boyd and LaRue Dill, he knows things won't go smoothly. No way are those two rednecks going to let a black man, even a freeman from the day of his birth, keep that horse. So as soon as things get ugly, he jumps on the horse, pulls his cousin Omer up behind him, and heads off. They hook up with a cattle drive out of Texas heading for Deadwood, South Dakota. Prometheus is a fine hand with a horse and not so bad with a gun, and both skills prove useful as the trip north throws every twist and turn imaginable at the young cowpokes.
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Readers will be lassoed into this cowboy novel immediately. Prometheus Jones, an African-American boy who gets the heck out of the South during reconstruction, signs on with his cousin to drive cattle West. Between scrapes with fate and nature, the characters find adventure at every turn whether fighting rivers or protecting their camps in the dark. It's a book that parents and grandparents can feel confident in giving as a gift to boys 10-years-old and up and teachers can choose to help students ... Read More
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Prometheus Jones (gotta love his name!) is a young black boy turned cowboy. After the death of his mother and the luck of winning a one-eyed horse, Prometheus heads west along with his eleven-year-old cousin named Omer. Prometheus has headed to Texas to find the father he never knew.
THE ADVENTUROUS DEEDS OF DEADWOOD JONES doesn't hesitate to describe the rough and often dangerous life of the cowboy. The two young cowboys get themselves jobs with a cattle driving company and the ... Read More
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