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   Who is Calamity Jane?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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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   How did Calamity Jane get her name?

   • The genesis of her nickname is unclear. What is clear is that she was already known as Calamity Jane in the summer of 1876 when she sauntered down the dusty main street of Deadwood, South Dakota, on horseback in a suit of buckskin alongside Wild Bill Hickok.

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   How did Calamity Jane become famous?

   • Calamity Jane gained fame in the 1870s after arriving on horseback in Deadwood, South Dakota, alongside Wild Bill Hickok. The two were likely mere acquaintances but dime novels and sensational newspaper stories published many a tall tale of th...Read More ---

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   How did Calamity Jane die?

   • Calamity Jane poses at the grave of Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, South Dakota, in this photograph taken by J.A. Kumpf circa 1903. The famous gunslinger died that year and was buried in the same cemetery. She died penniless at age 47 on August 1, 1903, likely from effects of alcoholism.

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   Is Calamity Jane a true story?

   • Not yet a teenager, Etulain writes in The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane that she was adrift in a pioneer man’s world. (Here’s the true story of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.) Calamity Jane lived a nomadic life, taking jobs for a few weeks at a time before heading to the next spot whim took her. And that’s where her story begins to blend into myth.

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   Did Calamity Jane meet Jesse James?

   • McCormick tried to prove her story by producing a diary and letters purportedly written by Calamity Jane. These documents suggest that Calamity traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show to England, that she met Jesse James after his alleged death (he sang at his own funeral, the diary says), and so forth.

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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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   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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   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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   • 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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   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.

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   Today, the seventy-seven-year-old performer has about twenty-five hundred Calamity Jane shows to her credit. Jane, who lived from 1852 to 1903, is famous for elbowing her way into the male-dominated Western frontier, refusing to view her sex as a hindrance.

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    Jan 29, 2020 · Perhaps most important is the evidence proving that the claim by Jean McCormick in 1941 that she was the daughter of Calamity and Wild Bill is false. McCormick tried to prove her story by producing a diary and letters purportedly written by Calamity Jane.