Black Wheels

by Michael Halperin

Nat Fowler, a fifteen year old African-American boy raised on his family farm in a predominately white part of Missouri in the late 1800's, runs away from his family farm when he's accused of a murder and joins the United States Army. He ends up at Fort Missoula, Montana with the all-black 25th Infantry where a white officer organizes the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps. Nat goes on a historic trek by bicycle from Missoula, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. During the journey he falls in love, discovers bigotry and hatred, finds friends and comrades but also grows up as he enters the 20th century.

168 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2003

About the author

Writer-Producer, MCA Television; Executive Story Consultant, 20th Century-Fox TV; Story Editor, Universal TV. Additional credits see imdb.com.
Publications: "My Name is David: Search for Identity", Floricanto & Berkeley Presses (Sept. 2020); "Fields of Poison: Migrant Farmworker to Crusading Physician", Floricanto & Berkeley Presses; "Black Wheels", NEA Best African American Book List; Best-selling "Jacob’s Rescue", Random House; "Writing Great Characters", Lone Eagle; "Writing the Second Act", MWP; "Writing the Killer Treatment", MWP.
Plays: "Freedom, Texas" Theatre 40 virtual performance; "Best Revenge: A Harmless Subterfuge", Theatre 40 virtual performance; "Major Rewrite", Theatre 40 virtual performance; "All Steps Necessary", L.A. premiere, Inkwell Theater; "Dancing with William Blake", Group Repertory Theatre, North Hollywood; "Spark of Reason", Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica; "Mela", Command Performance Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; "Chestnut Trees", premiere TCT Play Festival; "Driving James Dean", Celebrity Staged Reading Series.
Member: Dramatists Guild; Writers Guild of America