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Stagecoach Mary guarding mail during a snowstorm on the American frontier

Stagecoach Mary’s Last Stand

Long before her name became legend, Mary Fields was simply known as the woman who never turned back. On the western frontier, where roads were little more than stubborn ideas carved into dirt, mail routes were lifelines. Letters carried news of births and deaths, payments and warnings, hope and heartbreak. To miss a delivery was to cut a settlement off

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