My Heroes, My People African, Americans, and Native Americans in the West

This beautiful children's book is the culmination of an artist's lifelong fascination with the West. It grew when he discovered the role African Americans had in settling the West, as fur traders, stagecoach drivers, cowboys, soldiers, nurses, & mail-order brides. And when he learned that his own great-grandmother was the daughter of a Creek Indian chief, he looked at the West & its people of color with a new awareness. These portraits, executed in oil pastels, paint, markers, & collage, with accompanying biographical sketches & historical notes, are some of the men & women whose names have come down to us through legend & history. Taken together, they give us an extraordinary portrait of the West & an appreciation of the human need to be free.Monceaux, Morgan is the author of 'My Heroes, My People African, Americans, and Native Americans in the West', published 0000 under ISBN 9780756778682 and ISBN 0756778689.