Mary Fields earned the nickname ‘Stagecoach Mary’ for her reliability and speed in running a 15-mile mail route in Montana in the late 1800s. Stagecoach Mary had a fondness for smoking, drinking, ...

Bigfork’s Leslie Budewitz is back with her 18th published book. While she may be known for her Spice Shop Mysteries or Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries, this time she has dipped her finger into ...

So it’s no wonder that the story of Mary Fields called out to her. Fields, a freed slave who moved West and left a deep legacy on the Montana prairies, was known by the sobriquet “Stagecoach Mary.” ...

KETTERING — She was known as Stagecoach Mary. She smoked a cigar, dipped snuff, cussed like a sailor, and carried a .38 Smith and Wesson under her apron. Mary Fields was the first African-American ...