Who was "Calamity Jane"?

Answer 1

Calamity Jane was a name given to Martha Jane Canary by the soldiers who served with General George Armstrong Custer. She was born in 1852 in Princeton, MO., and signed on as an army scout when she was a young woman. She gained her original fame fighting Indians. Although there is no record of her actually being a "soldier," she wore a soldier's uniform. Still, when men made passes at her, she warned them by saying that she was a "dead-eye" shot and that they were "courting calamity."

In the 1880's, she rode with Wild Bill Hickok and his party. They became lovers (and at one point in her life, she claimed that they had been married -- but, again, there is no record of this event). However, she had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She always claimed that Will Bill was the father. When she finally got married in Texas, she appended her husband's last name to her own. This is supported by records that cite "Martha Jane Canary-Burke."

In 1896, she joined a traveling Wild West show, and stayed with it until she came down with pneumonia in 1903. Her death was attributed to complications from the disease.

Answer 2

Calamity Jane
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Dates: (May 1, 1852 (?) - August 1, 1903)
Also known as: Martha Jane Cannary Burke

About Calamity Jane:
Calamity Jane was born about 1852 in Missouri, as Martha Jane Cannary. Calamity Jane went to Deadwood, Dakota, during the Gold Rush in the Black Hills. There, after the 1876 murder of Wild Bill Hickok, she claimed that he was the father of her child and that they'd been married. (The child, if it existed, was said to have been born September 25, 1873, and given up for adoption.)

Calamity Jane was noted her habit of dressing in men's clothing. She nursed victims of a smallpox epidemic in 1878, also dressed as a man. She was something of a local legend because the Sioux Indians left her alone (as well as because of her other eccentricities).

Calamity Jane married Clinton Burke in 1891 after they'd lived together for at least six years.

Answer 3

Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 (?) – August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman and professional scout most well known for her exaggerated claim of being a close friend with Wild Bill Hickok, after having first gained fame fighting Native Americans.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

She was a woman back in the Cowboy days.

Answer 6

You could have looked that up by yourself instead of lazily asking it of others who were nicer to you than I.

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

google it.

wasnt she the hooker on Underwood?