Stagecoach Mary

by Jess Nevins

Stagecoach Mary Fields (1832-1914) was the toughest woman on the frontier, and broke more noses than any man in Montana. The first female African-American mail carrier, she began work for the mail service at age 60, and twenty years later she was still head-butting men who'd try to keep her from drinking at her favorite saloon.

STAGECOACH MARY is a Weird West collection featuring Mary Fields, and contains eight stories of her lesser-known adventures on the Montana frontier, involving ghosts, legendary beasts, the Devil, town-wide madnesses, phantom airships, supernatural threats, magic-spawned blizzards, and the rescue of innocent men framed by an uncaring legal system. Full of adventure, horror, and new twists on old stories, STAGECOACH MARY is sure to be of interest to those who like their Westerns weird and off-beat and to those in search of adventurous frontier fiction.

Genres: Horror

339 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 6, 2016

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent fun read. NOT a historically accurate biography, but more of a pulp-fiction dime-novel take on a popular heroine, a series of short stories complete with supernatural mysteries and monsters. Historical heroes of the time were often popularized in such fictionalized accounts, and Nevins pays great homage here to both a really cool woman and the pop-fiction of her day.

[Lori Alden Holuta · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's nothing quite like a good old western scary story. If you like such things, Stagecoach Mary has a tale for you.