Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver - Hardcover

Charles, Tami

 
9780807523056: Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver

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2021-2022 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Master List

Black history meets the American West in this inspiring story of a woman who became a legend.


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.

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Tami Charles is a former teacher who now writes picture books, middle grade and young adult novels, and nonfiction for kids. She is the author of Like Vanessa. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Claire Almon lives in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to her illustration work, she does character design in animation.

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ISBN 10:  0807523097 ISBN 13:  9780807523094
Verlag: Albert Whitman & Company, 2024
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