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For other uses, see Calamity Jane (disambiguation). 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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- August 1, 1903 (aged 51), Terry, South Dakota, U.S.
- Martha Jane Canary, May 1, 1852, Princeton, Missouri, U.S.
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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. Updated: Jul 6, 2020....
Mar 29, 2024 · Calamity Jane was a legendary American frontierswoman whose name was often linked with that of Wild Bill Hickok. The facts of her life are confused by her own inventions and by the successive stories and legends that accumulated in later years. She allegedly moved westward on a wagon train when.
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Mar 12, 2024 · Calamity Jane—born Martha Jane Canary—is a legend of the American West. But was she a gunslinger? An Army scout? A rider for the Pony Express? After a century of half-truths and...
- 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’.
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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.
Jan 29, 2020 · The years of research might have taken more than a decade off the author’s own life, but his dedication and/or obsession has provided us with Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005, $29.95), a 355-page biography that filters through more than 100 years of legend-making and gets to the heart of the ...
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