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      • Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.
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    Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. [2] [3] [4] In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.

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  4. www.biography.com › history-culture › calamity-janeCalamity Jane - Movie, Death & Facts - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · Calamity Jane was a woman of the Wild West renowned for her sharp-shooting, whiskey-swilling and cross-dressing ways – but also for her kindness towards others.

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  6. www.historyhit.com › facts-about-calamity-jane10 Facts About Calamity Jane | History Hit

    • She was one of six children. Calamity Jane was born Martha Jane Cannary on 1 May 1852, in Princeton, Missouri. She was the eldest of six children born to Robert and Charlotte Cannary, who were reportedly unsavoury figures involved in petty crime.
    • She was orphaned aged 12. In 1865, the family moved by wagon train to Montana, perhaps to try and make their fortune in the goldfields. Jane’s mother Charlotte died of pneumonia en route.
    • She worked a variety of jobs. In Piedmont, Jane took jobs as a dishwasher, cook, waitress, dance hall girl, nurse, ox-team driver and from 1874 was an on-and-off sex worker at the Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch.
    • The origins of her nickname are disputed. It was claimed that Jane earned the nickname ‘Calamity Jane’ during her time as a sex worker. It is also claimed that the name was a result of her warnings to men that to offend her was to ‘court calamity’.

  7. www.britannica.com › biography › Calamity-JaneCalamity Jane | Biography, Wild West & Deadwood | Britannica

    May 23, 2024 · Calamity Jane (born May 1, 1852?, near Princeton, Mo.?, U.S.—died Aug. 1, 1903, Terry, near Deadwood, S.D.) was a legendary American frontierswoman whose name was often linked with that of Wild Bill Hickok.

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  8. allthatsinteresting.com › calamity-janeCalamity Jane, The Rowdy Sharpshooting Legend Of The Wild West

    Jun 16, 2024 · Legendary sharpshooter and scout Calamity Jane gained infamy for her gunslinging exploits alongside Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood during the 1870s.

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  10. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleWho was the real Calamity Jane? Historians search for an answer.

    Mar 12, 2024 · You would be forgiven in describing Calamity Jane as an iconoclast whose flouting of 19th-century female mores launched her into exceptional fame and fortune in a male-dominated American West.

  11. www.historynet.com › calamity-jane-and-wild-billUncovering the Real Story of Calamity Jane - HistoryNet

    Jan 29, 2020 · Trying to separate fact from fiction in the life of the legendary Calamity Jane is about as difficult as trying to prospect for gold on the Staked Plains or trying to walk straight when drunk as a skunk.

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