Calamity Jane : the woman and the legend /
James D. McLaird
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2005.
- xiii, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Princeton, Missouri, 1856-1864 -- To Montana and Wyoming, 1864-1874 -- Black Hills expedition of 1875 -- With Crook in 1876 -- With Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, 1876 -- Dime novel heroine, 1877 -- Life in Dakota, 1878-1881 -- Following the Northern Pacific, 1882-1884 -- Life in Wyoming, 1884-1894 -- Deadwood celebrity, 1895-1896 -- Life in Montana, 1896-1901 -- Pan-American Exposition, 1901-1902 -- Death in the Black Hills, 1903 -- Building a legend, 1903-1953 -- Of daughters, letters, and a diary -- Challenging the myth, 1953-2003 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. The 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A 11. 12. The 13. 14. 15. 16.
A meticulously researched account about how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine is presented in this biography of Martha Canary, the woman known as Calamity Jane.