COURTING CALAMITY: Sometime around July 12, 1876, the famed lawman and gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok rode into the mining boomtown of Deadwood, S.D., in the Black Hills. Along for the ride, which one ...
Yet as historian and American West scholar professor Richard Etulain points out, “the Calamity Jane Doris Day portrayed in the movie is the cleaned up and simplified version,” he said. “The real life ...
When it comes to the Wild West character known as Calamity Jane, a big difference divides her legend from her life. Martha Jane Cannary wanted it that way. She made much of her living from an ...