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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.
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.
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.
Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, Pony Express rider, stage coach driver, wild west show performer and so much more.
Download this stock image: Calamity Jane, standing by the grave of Wild Bill Hickok, photogrpahed by J.A. Kumpf, 1903. Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman and professional scout.
12 sty 2023 · 365 pages : 27 cm. "Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn't so easy...especially for women. Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary) was a bona fide frontierswoman, a professional scout, a drunk, and sometime whore, doing whatever it took to stay alive in the hardscrabble days of American expansion."--back cover.
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.
