Well, I admit that "Stagecoach Mary" Fields (1832-1914) did resemble the grizzly bear she often was compared to in looks and demeanour, but I find her to be a grand and stately woman. Actually, in my opinion she is somewhat of an ideal woman, although not in the ordinary sense of the beauty standards of the Patriarchy which goes for the petite and the not physically threatening. When I see photos of Mary, it's obvious that she was anything but petite, and she may often have set out to be threatening because of her job: She was the first black woman who was employed as a postwoman in the USA.
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Mary, standing six feet tall, drove more than 300 miles across the wolf-packed Wild West, week by week in the late 1800s to deliver mail in the job she got when she was a 63 years old freed slave. She seems to have been very beloved as well as venerated in the town where she lived in Montana, even though she was anything but "feminine" in either looks or behavior.
There are many legends about her, which go on her boozing and fist-fighting. One of them is about the laundromat she opened in Cascade, Montana: When having a good time drinking in a saloon, she saw a customer outside the bar, who had "forgotten" to pay his laundry bill. That was something she didn't accept and she got hold of him, punched him in the face and returned to declare: "His bill is paid!"
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