Most people have heard of Calamity Jane, once promoted as The Famous Woman Scout of the Wild West. But do we really know who she was? After losing her parents as a young girl, Martha Canary had to fend for herself on the frontier and eventually became the legendary Calamity Jane. It’s hard to distinguish fact from fiction in Calamity’s life. Dime novelists invented tall tales about her and she fabricated many more yarns herself. In The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane, Richard W. Etulain
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