Fearless Mary by Tami Charles
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.Tami Charles is a full-time author of picture books, nonfiction, middle grade, and young adult novels, as well as a former teacher. She made it her duty as a teacher to expose her students to a wide range of literature, particularly minority novels. Tami's passion for writing and childhood aspiration of becoming an novelist were resurrected as a result of this. Her family and she live in New Jersey.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807523056 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807523054 |
| Title | Fearless Mary |
| Author | Tami Charles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Albert Whitman & Company |
| Year published | 2019-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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