Author: Calamity JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter
Author: Calamity JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Letters of Calamity Jane to Her Daughter
Author: Calamity JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowgirls
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter
Author: Martha Jane HickokSongs from Letters
Author: Libby LarsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle.
The Calamity of Jane
Author: Jennifer ButlerCopies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters
Author: Calamity JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowgirls
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters
Author: Calamity JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowgirls
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Calamity Jane
Author: James D. McLairdPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080618311X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now. This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine. Always on the move across the northern plains, Martha was more camp follower than the scout of legend. A mother of two, she often found employment as waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl and was more likely to be wearing a dress than buckskin. But she was hard to ignore when she’d had a few drinks, and she exploited the aura of fame that dime novels created around her, even selling her autobiography and photos to tourists. Gun toting, swearing, hard drinking—Calamity Jane was all of these, to be sure. But whatever her flaws or foibles, James D. McLaird paints a compelling portrait of an unconventional woman who more than once turned the tables on those who sought to condemn or patronize her. He also includes dozens of photos—many never before seen—depicting Jane in her many guises. His book is a long-awaited biography of Martha Canary and the last word on Calamity Jane.
The Shameless Hussy
Author: AltaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Calamity
Author: Karen R. JonesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.