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1 online resource |
| Summary |
A little-known but fascinating and larger-than-life character, Mary Fields is one of the unsung, trailblazing African American women who helped settle the American West. A former slave, Fields became the first African American woman stagecoach driver in 1895, when, in her 60s, she beat out all the cowboys applying for the job by being the fastest to hitch a team of six horses. She won the dangerous and challenging job, and for many years traveled the badlands with her pet eagle, protecting the mail from outlaws and wild animals, never losing a single horse or package. Fields helped pave the way for other women and people of color to become stagecoach drivers and postal workers. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Chicago : Albert Whitman & Company, 2019. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 9000 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
| Subject |
Fields, Mary, approximately 1832-1914 -- Juvenile literature.
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Letter carriers -- Juvenile literature.
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Coach drivers -- Juvenile literature.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Almon, Claire, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780807523056 |
| ISBN |
9780807523087 (electronic bk) |
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9780807523070 (electronic bk) |
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