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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Calamity_JaneCalamity Jane - Wikipedia

    In Calamity's Wake (2013), a novel of historical fiction written by Natalee Caple, Martha, or Calamity Jane, is one of two main narrators; the other is Jane's daughter Miette. [34] Calamity Jane, légende de l'Ouest , written by Gregory Monro (2010), is the only French biography to this day.

  2. www.biography.com › history-culture › calamity-janeCalamity Jane - Movie, Death & Facts - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · 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.

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  4. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleWho was the real Calamity Jane? Historians search for an answer.

    Mar 12, 2024 · Johnston’s own grandmother used to tell the story of Calamity Jane helping their family recover from an illness. To thank her, his great-great grandmother made Calamity a nice shirt.

  5. www.historynet.com › calamity-jane-and-wild-billUncovering the Real Story of Calamity Jane - HistoryNet

    Jan 29, 2020 · Uncovering the Real Story of Calamity Jane. An interview with Jane biographer James D. McLaird. by Sierra Adare 1/29/2020. Calamity was a crowd-pleaser at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., but she soon grew restless for the wide-open West. ( (William B. Secrest Collection))

  6. www.historyhit.com › facts-about-calamity-jane10 Facts About Calamity Jane - History Hit

    • 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’.

  7. www.spectator.co.uk › article › the-real-calamityThe real Calamity Jane was distressingly unlike her legend

    Feb 8, 2020 · Not one of these things is true. In fact, as Karen Jones sets out dismayingly early in her book, the only things that the real-life ‘Calamity Jane’ can with confidence be said to have in ...

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  9. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsThe truth about Calamity Jane - The Independent

    Doris's Jane is played very broad, in a Deadwood plainly located in the gentle, folded hills of California, in a town where Hickok is a bit of a dandy with a singing voice just like that of Howard ...