The life and legends of Calamity Jane / by Richard W. Etulain.
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TextSeries: Oklahoma western biographies ; v. 29.Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]Description: xviii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780806146324
- 080614632X
- 978/.02092 B 23
- F594.C2 E88 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-372) and index.
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.
Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain's account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity's several "husbands" (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane's reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004-2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on--raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the life of Calamity Jane from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.