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Calamity Jane

(Calamity Jane) Martha Jane Canary was a tobacco-spitting, beer-guzzling, foul-mouthed woman who preferred men’s clothing to dresses. She was well known through the Hills as Calamity Jane, but how she got this nickname is a legendary debate. According to Old West legend, Calamity Jane rode into a group of fighting hostiles to save a wounded army captain. Jane emerged from the fight untouched so the captain named her “Calamity Jane.” Or did he?

A look at Doris Day’s filmography doesn't exactly yield (at least on the surface) a kaleidoscopic portrait of versatility when it comes to the kind of roles the extremely underrated actress has undertaken throughout her career. From her debut in 1948’s Romance on the High Seas, the studios made it their business to place Day in movies in which audiences were encouraged to partner the sunshiny implications of her alliterative stage name with the homespun effervescence suggested by her…

In the popular imagination, unlawful cowboys and bandits dominated the American frontier but it was also home to female outlaws, very different to the helpless dames portrayed in Hollywood.

October 24, 2017 In the forthcoming book "The Illustrated Life And Times of Wild Bill Hickok" we are running a blow-up of a famous photograph: Calamity Jane mugs for the camera in front of Wild Bill's grave. A Frontier Clothing Expert Examines Calamity's Outfit "I've never seen this photo so close up. I LOVE that she has a safety pin holding her bodice closed, the silk bodice is shattered in places and it appears she is wearing long underwear under it. Probably cut the sleeves away, so she…

Calamity Jane was born Martha Cannary in 1852 in the family of a poor farmer who, lured as were many pioneers of the time by the prospect of riches or at least a better life to be gained, had left his home in the state of Ohio with his family to head toward the unsettled prairies and gold-laden hills of the American West.

Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane