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The story of Stagecoach Mary Fields / by Robert H. Miller ; illustrated by Cheryl Hanna.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection HE6385.F53 M55 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1944-
- Series:
- Stories from the forgotten West.
- Stories from the forgotten West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fields, Mary, approximately 1832-1914.
- Fields, Mary.
- Letter carriers--Montana--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Letter carriers.
- Coach drivers--Montana--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Coach drivers.
- Women pioneers--Montana--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Women pioneers.
- African American pioneers--Montana--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--Juvenile literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Pioneers.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Women--Biography.
- Montana.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 30 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Englewood Cliff, N.J. : Silver Press, [1995].
- Summary:
- At the age of sixty, Mary Fields got the job of delivering mail via stagecoach from Cascade, Montana, to St. Peter's Mission, as the first African American woman ever to carry the United States mail.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0382243943
- 9780382243943
- 0382243900
- 9780382243905
- 0382243994
- 9780382243998
- OCLC:
- 29798729
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