Oxford Reading Tree: Levels 15-16: TreeTops True Stories: Tomahawk Beckwourth. This item is unavailable.Oxford Reading Tree: Levels 15-16: TreeTops True Stories: Tomahawk Beckwourth

James Tomahawk Beckwourth - My Life and Adventures 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 yet the first Hollywood movie about him saw him played by a white actor! He led a colourful and adventure-packed life, and this story is retold in the first person with photos and beautiful artwork of the flora and fauna of untamed America. Year 5 title supporting the basic need for different text-types (non-fiction) reading in NLS. TreeTops now branching out into non-fiction, with the same high-quality that the fiction strands enjoy. These books contain full introduction and story background sections, narrative 'faction' text and full supporting contents, index and glossary.

Series Consultant Roderick Hunt is a former teacher, and now a full-time author.