Spur Awards Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane.
This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where sh.
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.
Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion.
Spur Awards Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane