Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

This week we're re-delivering some of our favorite episodes about letters, packages and deliveries. In this episode from March 2021, the story of Mary Fields, the first Black woman to receive a Post Office contract to deliver the mail, and in the Wild West, no less. Plus: the story of a sibling who found a practical use for her identical twin.  ⁠The Life and Legend of Mary Fields⁠ (Montana Women's History) ⁠Stagecoach Mary Fields⁠ (National Postal Museum) ⁠Fields, Mary – aka Stagecoach Mary⁠ (Amazing Black History) ⁠More women’s history on Cool Weird Awesome⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/support