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    Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
    Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
    Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
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    Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane

    By Calamity Jane

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
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    Calamity Jane

    One of the most colourful characters of the Wild West, Calamity Jane was an American frontier scout best known for her associations with Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill. Born Martha Jane Canary in May 1852, she was the eldest of six children, and was charged with providing for her family following the death of her parents. After working as a waitress, an ox-cart driver, and a dancehall girl, Jane eventually found employment as a frontier scout at Fort Russell, Wyoming. She was an excellent shot and a skilled rider, but her bold nature and taste for trouble lent to her reputation for rough-riding and gun-slinging. During the 1876 Gold Rush Jane settled in Deadwood, South Dakota, where she met the legendary gunfighter and stagecoach driver Wild Bill Hickok, eventually appearing in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as a storyteller and trick-rider. A mainstay of popular culture and mythology, a character based on Calamity Jane can be seen among others in Deadwood, the David Milch-produced western that aired to great acclaim on HBO, and in a film entitled Calamity Jane starring Doris Day and Howard Keel (of Dallas fame). Jane’s autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself, was likely ghostwritten, as Jane was believed to be functionally illiterate. Calamity Jane died in 1903.

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      So interesting. Calamity Jane was such an great part of history and a woman before her time. I loved it when she said she was not molested much on the trail while carrying the mail because they knew she was a sure shot and never missed her mark. Great Read and Super Quick! Wished it was longer!

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    Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane - Calamity Jane

    Project Gutenberg's Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

    Title: Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane

    Author: Calamity Jane

    Posting Date: July 21, 2008 [EBook #490] Release Date: April, 1996

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF CALAMITY JANE ***

    LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CALAMITY JANE

    BY

    HERSELF

    My maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missourri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children. As a child I always had a fondness for adventure and out-door exercise and especial fondness for horses which I began to ride at an early age and continued to do so until I became an expert rider being able to ride the most vicious and stubborn of horses, in fact the greater portion of my life in early times was spent in this manner.

    In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey. While on the way the greater portion of my time was spent in hunting along with the men and hunters of the party, in fact I was at all times

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