Friday, October 08, 2010


Storytelling on the life of the free-spirited and unforgettable ancestral contributor, Mother Mary Fields aka Stagecoach Mary.
I learned of the life contributions of Miz Mary through the works of the academic storyteller, William Loren Katz's work, Black Women of the Old West, (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, NY, 1995. I call Br. Katz the "John Brown of African Resistance Literature".

As a former high school teacher, I taught my alternative high school youth of Mother Mary's life through use of the work, A Gift of Heritage--Historic Black Pioneers, Vol. 3, Empak Publishing Company, l993. The students loved the story of this fascinating ancestral contributor and found her life to be both inspiring and amusing.

Mr. Katz's website presence can be found at:www.williamlkatz.com. The Empak site is listed to be at: www.empakpub.com.