TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Judith TI - First dawn: freedom's path SN - 0764229974 PY - 2005/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Bethany House Pub. KW - African American pioneers KW - Fiction KW - African American families KW - Race relations KW - Sharecroppers KW - Pioneers KW - Kansas KW - Nicodemus (Kan.) N2 - A saga of two families that portrays the harsh circumstances and intense courage displayed by African-American sharecroppers and Caucasian men as they formed the towns of Nicodemus and Hill City in the western Kansas prairie during the late nineteeth century ER -