Mail Week: “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, Montana’s One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
20/02/2024 3 min

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Episode Synopsis

This week we're re-delivering some of our favorite episodes about letters, packages and deliveries. In this episode from March 2021, the story of Mary Fields, the first Black woman to receive a Post Office contract to deliver the mail, and in the Wild West, no less. Plus: the story of a sibling who found a practical use for her identical twin. 
⁠The Life and Legend of Mary Fields⁠ (Montana Women's History)
⁠Stagecoach Mary Fields⁠ (National Postal Museum)
⁠Fields, Mary – aka Stagecoach Mary⁠ (Amazing Black History)
⁠More women’s history on Cool Weird Awesome⁠

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