Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons and the Making of an African-American Oil DynastyAtheneum, 1990 - 311 pages |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
An Ancestry of Freedom | 13 |
Child of the Frontier | 35 |
Copyright | |
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