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Mar 12, 2024 · By Heather Mundt. March 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...
Jul 28, 2022 · Published July 28, 2022. Updated February 26, 2024. The life of Calamity Jane may be more fiction than fact, but her story is enthralling either way. In the hyper-masculine world of the Wild West, Calamity Jane could shoot, ride, and drink with the toughest cowboys of her day.
Dec 3, 2010 · “She’s me, Short Pants—Martha Canary—Martha Burke, better known as ‘Calamity Jane.’” Calamity, arguably the most famous female character of the Wild West, had arrived from Cody, Wyo., that afternoon, rented a room over a saloon, gone out on the town and then promptly forgotten where she was staying.
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.
Jan 29, 2020 · Uncovering the Real Story of Calamity Jane. An interview with Jane biographer James D. McLaird. by Sierra Adare 1/29/2020. Calamity was a crowd-pleaser at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., but she soon grew restless for the wide-open West. ( (William B. Secrest Collection))
Jun 13, 2019 · Updated on June 13, 2019. Calamity Jane (born Martha Jane Cannary; 1852–August 1, 1903) was a controversial figure in the Wild West whose adventures and exploits are shrouded in mystery, legend, and self-promotion. She is known to have dressed and worked as a man, to have been a hard drinker, and to been skilled with guns and horses.
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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