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American Folk Figure, Frontierswoman. She is best remembered for her association with famous Western lawman, scout, and gunfighter, James Butler Wild Bill Hickok. Born the oldest of six children to parents who were farmers, she received little to no formal education and was illiterate.
Calamity Jane was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, South Dakota, next to Bill Hickok. Four of the men who planned her funeral later stated that Hickok had "absolutely no use" for Jane while he was alive, so they decided to play a posthumous joke on him by burying her by his side.
2 mar 2016 · A restored Calamity Jane, offered for sale in Hemmings in 2011. Photos courtesy Hemmings archives unless otherwise noted. For those of us raised in the United States from the 1950s into the 1990s, the ever-present threat of nuclear war was acknowledged, but not necessarily dwelled upon.
Graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. Deadwood, South Dakota. Mount Moriah Cemetery sits on a ridge above the town of Deadwood, and has been a destination for Wild West fans ever since Wild Bill Hickok was buried there in 1879.
Calamity Jane shares a drink with Teddy Blue Abbott, c. 1887. Calamity Jane at Wild Bill Hickok's Gravesite, Deadwood, Dakota Territory, 1890s. In 1881, Jane bought a ranch west of Miles City, Montana, along the Yellowstone River, where she kept an inn.
This photograph of Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary-Burke) was taken from the original glass plate in the late 1890s. She is seen visiting Hickok's grave three years after his murder. She died in 1903, and in accordance with her dying wish, was buried next to Hickok.
1 cze 2024 · "Calamity Jane was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, South Dakota, next to Bill Hickok. Four of the men who planned her funeral later stated that Hickok had "absolutely no use" for Jane while he was alive, so they decided to play a posthumous joke on him by burying her by his side.
