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1870s -- fiction
African American children's literature
Exodusters -- fiction
Growing Up in the Old West
By Patricia C. McKissack
In 1879, thirteen-year-old Everett Turner leaves a life of struggle on his family's farm and runs away to St. Louis, where he works in a livery stable before heading to the all-Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas.
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