Ebook: Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
Author: Miantae Metcalf McConnell
- Tags: African American women, African American women--Montana, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--19th century, Letter carriers, Letter carriers--Montana, Star routes, Star routes--History--19th century, Women--Suffrage, Women--Suffrage--Montana--History, Biographies, History, Biography, Fields Mary -- approximately 1832-1914, Ursulines -- Montana -- History -- 19th century, Letter carriers -- Montana -- Biography, African American women -- Montana -- Biography, Star routes -- History --
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Huzzah Publishing
- City: Montana
- Language: English
- epub
Award-Winning Literary Historical Nonfiction
Winter 1885. Mary Fields, an emancipated slave, receives news of her friend's impending death. She arrives in the Montana wilderness and finds Mother Mary Amadeus lying on frozen earth in a broken-down cabin. Certain that the cloister of frostbit Ursuline nuns and their pupils—Indian girls rescued from nearby reservations—will not survive without assistance, Mary stays.
She builds a hennery, makes repairs to living quarters, cares for stock, and treks into the mountains to provide food. Brushes with death do not deter her. Mary drives a horse and wagon through perilous terrain and blizzards to improve the lives of missionaries, homesteaders and Indians, and, in the process, her own.
After weathering wolf attacks, wagon crashes and treacherous conspiracies by scoundrels, local politicians and the state's first Catholic bishop, Mary Fields creates another daring plan. An avid patriot, she is determined to...