The Adventurous Deeds
of
Deadwood Jones

Saddle up!  We're headed for Deadwood.

When Prometheus Jones wins a horse with the raffle ticket he got fro the brothers 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 join a cattle drive out of Texas heading for Deadwood in the Dakota Territory.  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. 
                                                                                                       -- Inside Front Cover Flap

Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 228 pages
Publisher: Front Street (November 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590786378
ISBN-13: 978-1590786376