Mary Fields (c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States. [1][2][3][4] Fields had the star route contract for the delivery of U.S. mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission.

2024年12月1日 · Mary Fields, American pioneer who was the first African American woman to become a U.S. postal service star (contract) route mail carrier. Her dedication and reliability on the difficult route earned her the sobriquet Stagecoach Mary.

2017年9月14日 · As the first African American woman to carry mail, she stood out on the trail—and became a Wild West legend. Rumor had it that she’d fended off an angry pack of wolves with her rifle, had “the...

2020年4月1日 · Stagecoach Mary Fields carried a gun, smoked, drank and had a wicked temper. Mary was the first African American woman to carry mail on a Star Route for the United States Post Office Department. Mary Fields was born into slavery in either 1832 or 1833; her exact birthday is unknown.

2014年4月8日 · Born a slave in the 1830s, Mary Fields arrived in Montana with the Ursuline Sisters who came to establish an Indian boarding school and mission. Fields remains a legendary frontier character, celebrated for her tough persona and kind heart.

There are many legends about Mary Fields, an African American pioneer in late 19th century Montana. These myths have been exaggerated in the century since her death, yet oral and written accounts describe her as one of the toughest, most resilient residents of Cascade, Montana.

2020年2月19日 · Aloft on a stagecoach pulled by a team of horses, Stagecoach Mary Fields covered over 300 miles every week to deliver mail across the West at the turn of the 20th century. The six-foot-tall courier was said to have “the temperament of a grizzly bear” and kept a revolver and a rifle on her person.

Fields, Mary (c. 1832–1914) African-American former slave, associated with the Ursuline nuns, who was one of the first women to drive a U.S. mail coach on a regular route and became a folk hero of the American West.

2006年6月12日 · Although she may have been one of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, “Black Mary” had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914. In …

Mary Fields, better known as “Stagecoach Mary,” is both a physical and symbolic pioneer. Not only did Mary Fields traverse the rigorous Montana terrain through rain and shine, but she was the first African American woman to carry mail for the United States Post …