The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2014
- Author Richard W. Etulain discusses his new book, "The Life and Legends of 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. www.montanahistoricalsociety.org
I find this documentary piece extremely rare in just HOW objective the expert is in telling her tale. He simultaneously sticks to the facts AND makes Mrs. Canary far more intriguing and THAT is a hard thing to do!
I really enjoyed this presentation and would love to read your book as well as the other two you recommended based on this video. Love the old school slide show!!!! Excellently done!!!
A super Fantastic Documentary my friend 👍 well done. You bring the true life of Martha/Calamity to bear’ better than any one to Date🇺🇸. Think I’ll get your Book for my library
Terrific lecture, thanks for sharing. Jane is my favorite character on Deadwood, it's great to learn more about the real woman behind the character. Big thumbs up. 👍
Calamity Jane is a part of her time and Era! AND I would like to thank you for a much more historical representation of someone who was much more than the claptrap that's usually put out there and only adds to the confusion about who these people really were! And your historical research actually makes these people much more interesting in the real than the false assumptions that characterize their tinsel town representation! Again I enjoyed your video and hope that your work will continue! Thanks!
this woman was so intriguing. And despite what people say about the HBO series. I loved the character..one of the many reasons why I came here. to learn more about Jane.
Wow, I loved this! It's a remarkable lecture. Very interesting, very clear, and amazingly fair-minded.
I don't think anyone flapping their cakehole about HBO's Deadwood has even watched it. Jane's character was nothing more than an associate of Hickok's, and even though it's apparent she had some deep feelings and admiration for him they were NEVER portrayed as an item. Jane was portrayed basically as a good hearted, loudmouthed, tom-boyish, alcoholic vagrant . Her only relationship was an implied lesbian fling.
Thankyou for this !
Very well put together presentation. I will definitely buy his book. Wikipedia says she tried to run an Inn west of Miles City. I believe it might have been. in Hathaway, MT. Thank you for doing so much research about the real Calamity Jane.
I recently started to watch Deadwood and decided to do a little history checking. I enjoy history and I am sad that there isn't more confirmed information on Calamity Jane. I enjoyed this video very much.
Thank you
Calamity Jane also worked in Cottage Grove Oregon, on my husbands great grandparents Smith .
On Deadwood, despite taking creative liberties the essence is historically correct. Each episode is only 1 day in Deadwood so portraying Calamity as a mother, wife, etc would be impossible on that timeline
Interesting. I had wondered why there wasn't more on Calamity.
Thanks for your comment and for being a Montana The Magazine of Western History reader. Richard Etulain was the author of the article you mention, so he may have just misspoken.
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Have you looked into the animated series depiction of Calamity Jane? There are episodes up on youtube. It certainly isn't accurate, and though short lived it was a good show portraying a strong, independent female character. It got me interested in learning about the real woman.
I've watched a video on Garnet Montana and they claimed she owned a bar there. Does anyone have info on this?
Hi Richard we have an original photograph of Calamity Jane with a rough day of 1900 with a exact location of Deadwood. We have backed up the photo with another one on line where she is wearing the same dress. Are you interested talking? Thanks Brad