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Calamity Jane (1852–1903)

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Inkluderar namnet: Calamity Jane

Särskiljningsinformation:

(eng) Born as: Martha Jane Cannary

Foto taget av: c 1895, Library of Congress

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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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Mellan 1877 och 1902 skrev Jane brev till sin bortadopterade dotter, brev hon aldrig skickade. Här framträder människan bakom legenden, en kvinna med hemligheter, sorger och ett ovanligt mod att gå sina egna vägar i en hård omgivning.
 
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Verk
12
Medlemmar
113
Popularitet
#173,161
Betyg
½ 3.4
Recensioner
5
ISBN
15
Språk
5

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