The Letters of Calamity Jane to Her Daughter

The Letters of Calamity Jane to Her Daughter
Title The Letters of Calamity Jane to Her Daughter PDF eBook
Author Calamity Jane
Publisher
Pages 84
Release 1984
Genre Cowgirls
ISBN

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Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter

Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter
Title Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter PDF eBook
Author Calamity Jane
Publisher
Pages 60
Release 1976
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman

Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman
Title Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman PDF eBook
Author Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Pages 35
Release 2016-12-15
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 150262205X

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The Wild West was home to many men and women looking for adventure and a new life. Back then, in a place of danger and intrigue, there were several characters that made their mark on the frontier. One woman was Calamity Jane. Born Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane would become one of America’s best-known sharpshooters and horse riders. Her life is told in here in easy-to-read language and vivid illustrations sure to engage young readers.

Searching for Calamity

Searching for Calamity
Title Searching for Calamity PDF eBook
Author Linda Jucovy
Publisher Linda Jucovy
Pages 268
Release 2012
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0985300302

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“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional standards and yet achieved such enduring fame? But conventional standards do not apply. Calamity was poor, uneducated, and an alcoholic. For decades, she wandered through the small towns and empty spaces of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana. But she also had a natural talent for self-invention. She created a story about herself and promoted it tirelessly for much of her life. The story emphasized her love of adventure and the heroic role she played in key events in the early history of the American west. She became that story to people around the country who read about her. And she became that story to herself. The details about her exploits were rarely accurate, but a larger truth lay beneath them. In an era when there were few options for women, Calamity had the audacity to be herself. She lived as she pleased, which is to say that she allowed herself the same freedoms her male contemporaries assumed as their birthright. She spoke her mind. She flouted the rules. She dressed as a man when it was illegal for women to wear pants; hung out in saloons although that was unheard of for any woman who was not a prostitute; did men’s work; cursed, hollered, and smoked cigars. Although Calamity’s name is imprinted in history, most people know little about her. This highly readable biography brings Calamity to life against the backdrop of the American west and of women’s determination to break free from their historical constraints.

Calamity

Calamity
Title Calamity PDF eBook
Author Karen R. Jones
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 327
Release 2020-02-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0300252129

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A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.

Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane

Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane
Title Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane PDF eBook
Author James D. McLaird
Publisher SDSHS Press
Pages 156
Release 2008
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0977795594

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bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay

The Shameless Hussy

The Shameless Hussy
Title The Shameless Hussy PDF eBook
Author Alta
Publisher
Pages 270
Release 1980
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN

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