Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver

by Tami Charles

2021-2022 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Master List

Black history meets the American West in this inspiring story of a woman who became a legend.

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807523054
• ISBN13: 9780807523056
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3