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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.
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.
Mount Moriah Cemetery on Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota, is the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. By tradition, the American flag flies over the cemetery 24 hours a day, rather than merely from sunrise to sunset.
James Butler Hickok, better known to us as Wild Bill Hickok, was murdered as he played cards in a Deadwood, SD, saloon on August 2, 1876. Some years later his remains were moved to the town's peaceful hillside cemetery, Mt. Moriah, where they rest today.
Photographs shows Martha Jane Burke, popularly known as Calamity Jane, standing by the grave of Wild Bill Hickok in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, South Dakota. c1903.
