Calamity Jane (1852–1903)
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Särskiljningsinformation:
(eng) Born as: Martha Jane Cannary
Foto taget av: c 1895, Library of Congress
Verk av Calamity Jane
Copies of Calamity Jane's diary and letters 1 exemplar
Lettres à sa fille (1877-1902) - Introduction de Hélène Phillipe - Traduction de Marie Sully (1981) 1 exemplar
Brieven van Calamity Jane aan haar dochter 1 exemplar
Subsist/Resist 1 exemplar
Lettere alla figlia, 1877-1902 1 exemplar
Calamity Jane Archive 1 exemplar
The Autobiography of Calamity Jane 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Cannary, Martha Jane
- Födelsedag
- 1852-05-01
- Avled
- 1903-08-01
- Begravningsplats
- Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, South Dakota, USA
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Princeton, Missouri, USA
- Dödsort
- Terry, South Dakota, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Princeton, Missouri, USA (birthplace)
- Yrken
- adventurer
Sharpshooter
raconteur
frontierswoman
autobiographer
letter writer - Relationer
- Hickok "Wild Bill", James Butler
- Kort biografi
- Calamity Jane was born Martha Jane Cannary in Princeton, Missouri. Most of what is known about her life comes from her 1896 autobiography. In 1865, during the Gold Rush, her father moved the family west by wagon train, a trip that Martha Jane relished. However, her mother died of pneumonia along the trail. On arriving in Salt Lake City, Utah, her father began farming but he died a year later. At age 14, Martha Jane was left in charge of her five younger siblings. She loaded up their wagon again, and took the family to Fort Bridger in the Wyoming Territory. From there, they traveled on by train to Piedmont, Wyoming. There, Martha Jane took whatever jobs she could find to support them all, and often wore men's clothing while doing them. She worked as a dishwasher, cook, barmaid, launderer, mule skinner, ox team driver, trick shooter, cowhand, stagecoach driver, and may have occasionally worked as a prostitute. She then moved on to a rougher, mostly outdoor and adventurous life on the Great Plains. She spent many years in the boomtown of Deadwood, Dakota, in the Black Hills. She's thought to have traveled with James Butler Hickok, known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, for several years. She became something of a local legend because of her many eccentricities and gained widespread admiration when she nursed victims of an 1878 smallpox epidemic, dressed as a man. In 1877 and 1878, Edward L. Wheeler featured "Calamity Jane," the nickname she had acquired, in his popular Western dime novels, adding to her reputation. In 1893, she started performing in William F. Cody's "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" as a storyteller. She also participated in the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She returned to the Black Hills in 1903, and took a train to Terry, South Dakota, a small mining village near Deadwood. She died at the hotel there and was buried next to Hickok. Her letters to her daughter, born around 1887, were found and published posthumously.
- Särskiljningsnotis
- Born as: Martha Jane Cannary
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Statistik
- Verk
- 12
- Medlemmar
- 113
- Popularitet
- #173,161
- Betyg
- 3.4
- Recensioner
- 5
- ISBN
- 15
- Språk
- 5