Bibliograph

The life and legends of Calamity Jane, by Richard W. Etulain

Type

Label

The life and legends of Calamity Jane, by Richard W. Etulain

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-372) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The life and legends of Calamity Jane

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

875240134

Responsibility statement

by Richard W. Etulain

Series statement

Oklahoma western biographies, volume 29

Summary

Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine

Table Of Contents

Foundations, stable and broken -- Finding her way -- Negotiating Deadwood -- Overnight fame: a dime novel heroine -- On the road again -- The decline of a life -- Imagining Calamity: launching a legendary heroine, 1903-1930 -- The search for a coherent Calamity, 1930-1960 -- A new gray Calamity, 1960-1990 -- A complex Calamity, 1990-present -- Conclusion: pondering a life and legends

Target audience

adult

Classification