Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain's account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity's several "husbands" (including one she legally ...
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 ...
Her exploits became the stuff of legend, glamorizing life in the Old West. But Martha Jane Canary’s real life story bears little resemblance to the fictional heroine. Calamity Jane—born Martha Jane ...