TY  - BOOK
AU  - Etulain,Richard W.
TI  - The life and legends of Calamity Jane
T2  - Oklahoma western biographies
SN  - 9780806146324
AV  - F594.C2 E88 2014
U1  - 978/.02092B 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Norman
PB  - University of Oklahoma Press
KW  - Calamity Jane,
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - fast
KW  - United States, West
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -