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

1885-1914. Emancipated slave Mary Fields, rushes into Montana wilderness, saves her friend and stays to help nuns and Native American girls. With daring grit, compassion and perseverance, Mary confronts perilous frontiers, endures hardship, delivers freight by horse and wagon and pursues lifelong visions of independence. Constitutional issues: property ownership, federal appropriations and women's suffrage intertwine with new laws, business, and religious institutionschallenging the survival of minorities, including this American pioneer who never gives up. Original.