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Stagecoach Mary Fields: 'Stagecoach Mary: The Saint with a Shotgun'
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In this episode Marcelo tells the impressive the Story of “Stagecoach” Mary Fields. When it came to stagecoach driving, Mary, a hard drinking, cigar smoking, shotgun welding badass was in a league of her own and who later became America’s first Black Woman postal worker on one of Americas toughest routes through the Montana territory in the late 1890s.
#USHistory #MontanaHistory #WesternHistory #BlackHistory
Durrett, Deanne Stillman. *Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West*
- Haarsma, Eileen M. *Black Women of the Old West*
- U.S. Postal Service Historical Archives
- Montana Historical Society Oral History Project
- *Unladylike2020* (PBS documentary)
- Ursuline Sisters Archives of Toledo, OH
- Cascade Courier obituaries, December 6, 1914
- Montana Women's History Resources, Montana Historical Society
- Star Route Records, U.S. National Archives
- "Mary Fields, Pioneer Mail Carrier" – Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 34
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