This is the story of Mary Fields, 'Stagecoach Mary', who got her nickname at the turn of the 20th Century. She earned this nickname by working for the United St

1885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Toledo, receives news of her friend's impending death. Remed

A meticulously documented look at a lesser-known aspect of African-American history is based on the personal writings of the explorers, cowboys, settlers, and s

The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one

A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.