In the Old West, there was a black female slave named Mary Fields who was raised by nuns in Tennessee. She was an orphaned child who never married and never gave birth. After moving to Toledo, Ohio, Fields would spend all of her time in the Catholic Convent with a woman named Mother Amadeus.
Though raised in an environment of peace, the heavyset Fields stood six feet tall and was a gun-slinging, short-tempered, two-fisted woman who carried a pair of six-shooters and a 10-gauge shotgun. She was known to smoke bad homemade cigars.
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