The touring troupe would always remember that 1870s night in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, when Calamity Jane came to see them perform: “Calamity was dolled up for the occasion in corduroy suit and sombrero and appeared to be particularly vain of her green kid gloves,” wrote actor Charles Chapin. “As soon as she comfortably settled, she bit a chunk from a plug of tobacco and chewed as industriously as any miner throughout the evening. She and her escort [outlaw Arkansaw Bill] clapped thei
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