Deliverance Mary Fields: First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History

O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW" An indefatigable former slave who braved the Montana Rockies on a journey to rescue a dying friend is the real-life subject of this 19th-century frontier narrative. Adventure abounds in this little-known tale of the heroic middle-aged woman who became the first female African American mail carrier in the United States.-Hamilton Cain, O, The Oprah Magazine 1885-1914. Discover a former Tennessee slave who at fifty-three, rushes into the Montana...