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First African American woman star route mail carrier in the U.S. Mary Fields ( c. 1832 – December 5, 1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary , was an American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States .
The Black West: a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing. ISBN 978-1-68275-226-5. William DeLong (24 Mar 2018). "The Forgotten Black Cowboys Of The Wild West". All That's Interesting
Wild West show and rodeo performers. Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) Yakima Canutt (1896–1986) William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846–1917)
Pearl Hart (born Pearl Taylor; 1871 – December 30, 1955) was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West.She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender.
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
Black women's contributions to the March on Washington and Civil Rights Movement went largely unnoticed. So they made their voices heard.
In the 1890s, Laura Bullion was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang; her cohorts were fellow outlaws, including the Sundance Kid, "Black Jack" Ketchum, and Kid Curry. For several years in the 1890s, she was romantically involved with outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), a bank and train robber and an acquaintance of her father, who ...
Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848.Most of her family members called her May. Her father, John Shirley, prospered raising wheat, corn, hogs and horses, though he was considered to be the "black sheep" of a well-to-do Virginia family which had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice. [2]