Calamity Jane

Author : James D. McLaird
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183114

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Calamity Jane by James D. McLaird Pdf

Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now. This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine. Always on the move across the northern plains, Martha was more camp follower than the scout of legend. A mother of two, she often found employment as waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl and was more likely to be wearing a dress than buckskin. But she was hard to ignore when she’d had a few drinks, and she exploited the aura of fame that dime novels created around her, even selling her autobiography and photos to tourists. Gun toting, swearing, hard drinking—Calamity Jane was all of these, to be sure. But whatever her flaws or foibles, James D. McLaird paints a compelling portrait of an unconventional woman who more than once turned the tables on those who sought to condemn or patronize her. He also includes dozens of photos—many never before seen—depicting Jane in her many guises. His book is a long-awaited biography of Martha Canary and the last word on Calamity Jane.

Author : D. J. Herda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493031955

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Calamity Jane by D. J. Herda Pdf

Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or bullwhacker. Just as likely to wear a dress as she was buckskins, she was impossible to ignore no matter what she wore, particularly after she’d had a few drinks! And she shamelessly parlayed into a legend the aura of fame that Edward L. Wheeler’s dime novels crafted around her. Perhaps most amazing of all, in an era where women had few options in life, Calamity Jane had the audacity to carve them out for herself. The gun-toting, tough-talking, hard-drinking woman was all Western America come to life. Flowing across the untamed small towns and empty spaces of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana like the wild running rivers of the American West, she helped create the legend of Calamity Jane from scratch. Part carnie barker, part actor, part sexually alluring siren, part drunken lout--she was all of these and much more.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806147864

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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane by Richard W. Etulain Pdf

Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.

Author : James D. McLaird
Publisher : SDSHS Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780977795598

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Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane by James D. McLaird Pdf

bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay

Author : Cynthia Hand,Brodi Ashton,Jodi Meadows
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062652836

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My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand,Brodi Ashton,Jodi Meadows Pdf

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou—better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there’re hunters: the one and only Calamity Jane, to be precise, along with her fellow stars of Wild Bill’s Traveling Show, Annie Oakley and Frank “the Pistol Prince” Butler. After a garou hunt goes south and Jane finds a suspicious-like bite on her arm, she turns tail for Deadwood, where there’s talk of a garou cure. But rumors can be deceiving—meaning the gang better hightail it after her before they’re a day late and a Jane short. In this perfect next read for fans of A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton bring their signature spark to the side-splittin’, whopper-filled (but actually kind of factual?) tale of Calamity Jane.

Author : Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781502622051

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Calamity Jane: Frontierswoman by Alicia Z. Klepeis Pdf

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.

Author : Calamity Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cowgirls
ISBN : WISC:89105763817

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The Letters of Calamity Jane to Her Daughter by Calamity Jane Pdf

Author : Karen R. Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300252125

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Calamity by Karen R. Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Sara Gilbert
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583413375

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Calamity Jane by Sara Gilbert Pdf

Profiles the life and legends related to the frontierswoman known as Calamity Jane.

Author : Sherryl Woods
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460382257

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The Calamity Janes: Lauren by Sherryl Woods Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods returns with a story of the Calamity Janes…fierce friends facing challenges in life and love Lauren Winters has achieved fame and fortune, but all she wants when she goes home to Winding River, Wyoming, for a reunion with old friends is a break from her high-profile career. Seizing the chance to work incognito as a horse trainer for Wade Owens, she revels in the wrangler's attention. But how is the man who's disdainful of the rich and powerful going to feel when he discovers she's deceived him? Will Wade be able to see past her celebrity and believe in the woman who's fallen in love with him?

Author : Linda Jucovy
Publisher : Linda Jucovy
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780985300302

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Searching for Calamity by Linda Jucovy Pdf

“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.

Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780822538172

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Calamity Jane by Stephen Krensky Pdf

Calamity Jane was always in search of adventure. Nothing scared her—not rattlesnakes or wild horses or even Wild Bill Hickok. Quicksand could not keep her down. As an army scout, Calamity Jane rescued a wounded captain from the middle of a bloody battle. She never even got a scratch. As a Pony Express rider, she outwitted a band of robbers and sent them running. Even smallpox didn’t dare tangle with her. Catch some of Calamity Jane’s spirit in this fast-paced tale.

Author : Calamity Jane,Peter Jonalik
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9783755414032

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Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Calamity Jane,Peter Jonalik Pdf

Die Autobiografie einer echten Westernheldin. Sie lebte zur gleichen Zeit wie Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday und Buffalo Bill. Es war die Zeit der Schießerei am Ok Coral , der Indianerkriege und der Weidekriege.

Author : Emily Dolbear
Publisher : Child's World
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503850048

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Calamity Jane by Emily Dolbear Pdf

The delightfully tall tale of how Martha Jane Cannary came to be known as Calamity Jane, the toughest woman in the old wild West. Additional features to aid comprehension include background information and historical context of the tale, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.

Author : Calamity Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036715089

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Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter by Calamity Jane Pdf