Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Five stories about African Americans in the old West, written for older children and young adults. Included in this book are accounts of York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark; fur trapper Ed Rose, Alvin Coffey, a gold miner who was able to buy his own freedom; Biddy Mason, who walked in a wagon train from Mississippi to California and then sued for her freedom and won; and George Monroe, a Pony Express rider. Illustrated with full page woodcuts by Richard Leonard. Bibliography, x, 102 pp. ISBN: 0-382240812.