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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Mail Week: âStagecoachâ Mary Fields, Montanaâs One-Of-A-Kind Mail Carrier
Description: 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.Â
â The Life and Legend of Mary Fieldsâ (Montana Women's History)
â Stagecoach Mary Fieldsâ (National Postal Museum)
â Fields, Mary â aka Stagecoach Maryâ (Amazing Black History)
â More womenâs history on Cool Weird Awesomeâ