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  1. Jan 12, 2022 · Better known by her nickname ‘Calamity Jane’, the legendary Martha Jane Canary was famed as a sharp-shooting, tobacco-spitting, whisky-guzzling and foul-mouthed reprobate who regularly wore men’s clothes and engaged in fearsome gunfights in mid-19th century America’s Wild West.

  2. Dec 3, 2010 · Calamity Jane, the legendary frontierswoman, lived her final days in a world of saloons, dance halls, and brothels. It wasn't so different from her youth.

  3. 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.

  4. Mar 12, 2024 · The real Calamity Jane. Many of the tall tales surrounding Calamity’s life are rooted in fact. She may have served as an Army scout, her biographers found—just not for General Custer.

  5. Calamity Jane, 1895. Calamity Jane, one of the rowdiest and adventurous women in the Old West , was a frontierswoman and professional scout, who was known for her being a friend to Wild Bill Hickok and appearing in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show.

  6. Jun 13, 2019 · Calamity Jane was a legendary figure from American western history. Learn more about her skill with guns and horses and her showmanship.

  7. Jun 11, 2018 · Martha Jane Cannary, known as Calamity Jane (1852-1903), was a notorious American frontier woman in the days of the Wild West. As unconventional and wild as the territory she roamed, she has become a legend. The most likely date of Jane Cannary's birth is May 1, 1852, probably at Princeton, Mo.

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