Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
Description
AWARD WINNING LITERARY NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY1885 - 1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Toledo, receives news of her friend's impending death. Remedies packed in her satchel, Mary rushes to board the Northern Pacific. Days later, she arrives in the Montana wilderness to find Mother Mary Amadeus lying on frozen earth in a broken-down cabin. Certain that the cloister of frostbit Ursuline nuns and their students, Indian girls rescued from nearby reservations, will not survive without assistance, Mary decides to stay....
ISBN(s)
0997877006, 9780997877007
