Oxford Reading Tree: Levels 15-16: Treetops True Stories: Tomahawk Beckwourth - My Life and Adventures
By Michael Cox.
Description
TreeTops True Stories are exciting, motivating non-fiction books which will broaden your pupils' reading experience. They are part of a structured reading programme for juniors. In the plethora of imagery surrounding the American Wild West, we are used to the heroes of cowboy films and the stuff of legends like Dances with Wolves being portrayed exclusively as white colonisers. Here is a story of a real character who was half African-American, being born to a slave mother and white land-owning father. James Tomahawk Beckwourth has rightly been claimed as a black hero in America, and ye...
ISBN(s)
0199196605, 9780199196609
