May 15 Mary Fields was born a slave on this date in 1832. She was a Black entrepreneur and stagecoach driver. Fields was a black gun-totin' female in the American Wild West who was six feet tall, heavy, tough, short-tempered, two-fisted, powerful, and she carried a pair of six-shooters and an eight or ten-gauge shotgun. In 1895, she found a job that suited her, as a U.S. mail coach driver for the Cascade County region of central Montana. She and her mule, Moses, never missed a day, and it was in this aptitude that she became a legend in her own time known as Stagecoach Mary for her unfailing reliability.
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Awoke to the sight of another beautiful amaryllis. Just maxin' and relaxin' today. Company coming tomorrow.
Friday, May 15, 2009
5.15
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