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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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: 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.
- 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’.
Calamity Jane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western musical film starring Doris Day and Howard Keel, and directed by David Butler. The musical numbers were staged and directed by Jack Donohue, who a year later would direct the Day musical Lucky Me (1954).
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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Feb 2, 2024 · Calamity Jane: Directed by Terry Miles. With Emily Bett Rickards, Tim Rozon, Stephen Amell, Primo Allon. After her husband-to-be Wild Bill Hickok is killed in an infamous poker game, Calamity Jane must break out of prison and find his murderers before the Deadwood's Sheriff can arrest him.
Mar 12, 2024 · The real Calamity Jane. Many of the tall tales surrounding Calamity’s life are rooted in fact. She may have served as an Army scout, her biographers found—just not for General Custer.
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