The Incredible True Story Behind the Legend | Calamity Jane
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2019
- Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode, we are looking into the life of Calamity Jane an American Scout that lived towards the end of the 19th century!
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Wow, I'm actually related well with Martha Jane Cannary (Calamity Jane). My great great great great grandmothers 1st cousin. The middle name "Jane" was passed on and is my Grandmother's middle name.
Can u prove it. And I’m related to Arnold Schwarzenegger ...🤨
I was born in Princeton, MO. 1957. Where is your hometown?
She didn't say "it was a "court clamity" she said to those that offended her that by doing so they were "courting calamity." She also said "I figure if a girl wants to be a legend she should just go ahead and be one."
Beyond that she was known to post help wanted adds in newspapers and lure young ladies as young as 13 to deadwood. Then refuse to pay their way back home when they learned the only job was as prostitutes. If they refused she would throw them out on the streets with nothing. It is well known that her and Colorado Charlie" Utter trapped many in prostitution this way. She was not a good person.
@@heavyhittersgaming3759 You would have been hard pressed to find many good people in Deadwood or any other town like it at the height of its infamy , good people didn't last long. However, there were degrees of bad depending on what made them that way.
@@heavyhittersgaming3759 Could you provide the source for that? It’s hard to get reliable sources on historical figures of the Old West as there is so much vested interest in always lionizing them, especially the famous gunfighters.
The West wasn't all gun fights, horse thieving, and desperados riding the lonesome trail hunting rogue Indian Chiefs and robbing Stagecoaches.
That is a romantic and obtuse idea colored by Cinema and tall tales.
There were plenty of decent, hard working folks living a quiet life in what we consider the Old West. Way more than there were lawless, reckless Billy The Kid types.
@jjaarr3208 yeah thought so..
Holy Moly She was twelve years of age and had five younger siblings to bring up?
My grandmother was 16yrs old when her mother died and now That Is a story.
Certainly Not as wild as this but STRONG women.
Bless them.
Let's raise a glass to Jane.
She had a huge heart.
Here's to you Calamity Jane! An incredible woman! I am Martha Jane too
@@janeygourley8008A Lovely Name!!! 👍🏻
@@janetcw9808 thank you Janet! I never liked my first name and was never called by it unless I was in trouble lol! I asked mom why she named me that, it's not a family name. She said she just thought it was pretty.
A child every 2 years.
she was known to post help wanted adds in newspapers and lure young ladies as young as 13 to deadwood. Then refuse to pay their way back home when they learned the only job was as prostitutes. If they refused she would throw them out on the streets with nothing. It is well known that her and Colorado Charlie" Utter trapped many in prostitution this way. She was not a good person.
That's a rough life if 1% of it is true. If I was living in Deadwood back then, I suspect my name would be Suicide Liz.
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I have pictures of myself at Jane and Bill's graves. Poor woman had a hell of a life.
In the future when I go through tough times and find myself having a little pity party, i will remember Calamity Jane and realize I'm going through nothing compared to her hard life.
Poor woman. She was a child taking care of children. Life was hard in those days. But she survived and I hope her siblings did too.
Thank you so much for this one. I grew up in Wyoming so this one is close to my heart. I've been to her grave several times over the years. I miss those wide open skies living back here in DC.
Thank you for watching!
Damn, if this is an embellishment of her life then I don’t want to know how depressing it really was.
She may have exaggerated how hard her early life was.
@@joeblow7236 She was the greatest yarnspinner of her time.
Jane is a notorious liar/exaggerator.
Nice to see all the insecure & sexist "men" put their worthless 2 cent opinions here.
The calamity was also a euphemism for venereal disease in the old west. Makes you wonder
Yes. She had the Jack - that's more likely the truth
Debbie VanLeuven we learn something new everyday. I didn’t know that VD was referred to as calamity back in the old west. I guess I should have said referred to it as a calamity I guess it would have been. She still seemed like she was a pretty good person if this story is true.
A compatriot of Typhoid Mary perhaps. Makes me want to hear the "true" adventures of Calamity Jane. Might make for a funny porn movie.
Nah, there's not a doubt in my mind that Calamity Jane could totally ignite your bedsheets and make your ceiling fan sweat. Brassy broad could probably bite into a horseshoe and spit out nails you could set railroad ties with.
There's also a sneaking suspicion I have that, while she may have had several periods of being a self-employed "Professional Lady," the truth could very well be that whatever fees she collected were some of the first and most reasonable health insurance plans -one low monthly payment can keep both legs and arms from "Experiencing a Sudden Calamitous Onset" a local affliction which included such symptoms as: having all the joints of your body bent in the opposite directions, concussion, confusion, and a marked interest in reassuring concerned parties that they "got confused and hurt themselves -oh, but thank goodness Calamity was there to help. It's... Terrifying, what may have happened to a silly, clumsy, easily crushed little creature like myself who talks too muh.. -OW! Sorry about that, Miss Jane, I accidentally cracked my rib cage against your elbow, there."
Yeah, if that's not the historically-supported canon Calamity? Then I would suggest that you mind your own business and maybe just enjoy your "Not Haunted By The Seething Ghost Of Calamity Jane" life in whatever happy-go-lucky fantas... [ -OW! OW! Not so HARD, dangit... ]
I'm just going to shut up now. I think I've contracted an acute form of Sudden Calamitous Onset in the region where I used to have floating ribs. Wait, when and why did I put a handful of pennies in my mouuut-... Oh.
@@G0thCrayon Hi, yes, uh..what the fuck are you on about?
She's the BEST part of the Deadwood series.
Hey Great job on this one ! It's funny I'm a member of a local gun club and I do believe she was that good of a shot cuz I hear her name often . Thanks for keeping her story going.
She must have been! Thanks for watching!
Calamity Jane is one of my favorites! ❤ Thank you for doing this Forgotten Lives!
Always my favorite character on Deadwood...it's cool to see how much of the real Jane's story was woven into her portrayal on the show, especially her maternal instincts in season 1, I suppose a reflection of having to raise her siblings.
Kind of glossing over the fact that her being buried next to Bill was a posthumous joke at Bill's expense as one of the four men who buried her said, Wild Bill had absolutely no use for Jane while he was alive, so they decided to play a posthumous joke on him by burying her by his side
Obviously he did have use for her before he got shot in the head for killing someone's brother. The way males use women it isn't a surprise that so many women have no use for males. However, she seems to have used a few.
Outstanding podcast!!! Thank you
That was really excellent. Love listening to you.
Merry Christmas to you from an Aussie fan. And a great new year.
Thank you for the upload FL.
Watching from NSW Australia.
Wow this was so interesting!
Great job as always
Happy New Year!
Hugs from Sweden
Thanks! :D Happy New Year!
my favorite video so far. good job.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Thank u. Love your channel.
Thanks very much! Happy New Year!
Thank you for this indeed fascinate story! Loved that very much. You did great as always.
Hope you had good Christmas aswell with yours, and wish a happy and healthy New Year! Lots of success with your channel. You had 6 ads.
@@ELKE- Glad you liked the story, thanks for the support!! Happy New Year!
@@ForgottenLives Thank you! You are very welcome! Happy New Year!🎊
Nicely done , Thanks !
Love your channel and happy new year!!
Thanks for the support! Happy new year :)
My favorite Wild West woman is Charley Park hurst, who lived as a man for most of her life. She was one of the top stage coach drivers in America. She was found to be a woman after her death.
I'm going to try to find her on here.
Your channel will grow and grow! These videos are great!👍
New to your channel and can’t wait to watch the rest of your videos! I hit subscribe so fast 🤣
Thank you. Very well done
Another brilliant story, Loved It
Thanks!
Such an interesting story about a strong woman! Thank you, FL, for telling her story!
A Happy New Year to you 🎉🎊🎇🎄✨❄⛄!
Thanks for watching! Happy new year!
Great video forgotten lives keep up the good work and great commentary.
Thanks very much for the support!
@@ForgottenLives thanks for the good video
Thank you, enjoying your stories.
Thanks !!
Love this thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu and happt new year. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much! Happy new year!
Excellent channel!
You've done a fantastic job as always. Have you thought about doing a video about Annie Oakley?
Thank you!! Will look into her!
@@ForgottenLives Yeah, for sure! She's awesome!
Annie Oakley & Calamity Jane are my grandmother's personal heroines!
@@Ruby321123 Mine too. Belle Starr is another favorite of mine.
@@bettyjames4155 Yes!
Very interesting video, I enjoyed it very much.
Thank you so much!!! So interesting 🌼🌺
Thanks!
Nicely done!
Happy New Year!! Great video!!
Great to hear that! Happy new year!
Awesome story thanks FL and have a awesome new year 🍾🍻🎉🎉
Thanks :D Happy new year!
Forgotten Lives thanks hope you and your loved ones had a awesome new year 😃🎉
*NEW SUBSCRIBER HERE* : I truly liked your biography. I am a duel Citizen, British American stemming from Ashton Under Lynn in Greater Manchester UK and Central Florida of the USA. I have resided in both Countries twice since birth. I love biographies overall much like you do. The only funny part of the video 😂 was how you stated " *St. Louis* " . But I find that normal really when I am over in my home town in the UK talking to friends and family as the Yanks say British words wrong as well. Happy New year Mate, wishing you and the family all the very best.
I 💜 your videos SO much I even let the ads play. lol 💕
Thanks! That's a great help and support!
Great Story ! Thank you 🙏
Thanks!!
History in a nutshell. Awesome. Thank you.
Very nice... Thank you!
Thank You 😊
🦇🎸💀..Nicely done, brother..! 💀🎸🦇
I enjoyed this story great job I never knew this...
Fun fact: Sadie adler was based on Calamity jane.
I watched dd in calamity Jane 100 times from the age of 6-12 years of age I loved it 1981-87.
Nice job again FL. Happy New Year to you bud
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@@cherylleanne9755 Good Evening Cheryl :-) 🍾🍺🍺🍾🍺🍺🍾🍺🍺 (It is morning here lol)
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Cheers as usual Crime Reel! Happy new year!
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Legend, what a sad way to die though.
Interesting. Thank you!
Thanks for all the support!
Rough trade and rougher strong woman. Life with no safety net. We have it so much easier now.
Calamity Jane had a very sad life
Indeed and a hard one
I JUST FLEW IN FROM THE WINDY CITY~~~
Funny how Wild Bill and Calamity Jane never even met?
Her true skill was spinning a yarn.
@J1LLTheR1pper Wild Bill Hickock never had a show.
@J1LLTheR1pper Yea I have lived my entire life in the area. Visited his grave. Wrote plenty of reports on the man. James Butler Hickock did NOT run a show. He DIED in the No. 10 salon holding a particular hand of cards called Dead Mans Hand. Those cards were aces and eights. Perhaps you should do some research before you set out to argue?
@J1LLTheR1pper Buffalo Bill Cody is the man you are thinking about that ran a show. You can get off your high horse now.
@J1LLTheR1pper Yet you still respond. Hilarious. You are correct in the fact that you are a waste of time and energy for the simple fact you wish to live in ignorance of a mans history. Believe in a tv show that was very very loosely based in the myths that surrounded these people. Enjoy your day.
Fascinating and mythical - almost.
She came from Missouri awesome
Tyvvm for the interesting history. A woman living in a Man's world! Ty. Best wishes to You & yours in the New Year 😍
enjoyed it a lot of your story
Great to hear that!!
It great to hear facts about her life versus the legend. But it appears she liked to embellish her life at times in the first place.🤔 Thank you for another wonderful video since they're always a treat.😁
Don't blame her. Not much else she had going.
@@2degucitas You're right. She didn't have much going for her, women in general during that time period. That's something I didn't take into consideration.
Well. “facts” is a strong word. It’s the truth as she told. Whether or not she told the truth. we may never know.
@@majorgear1021 You have a great point. And she's no longer around we won't actually know if they're lies or not.
Never heard a lot of the facts in this story before.She had a fascinating and very hard life. I'm glad she was treated well after her death.
Finally !
If you want a really good time and a great historical vacation destination visit Deadwood South Dakota. I've ridden my Harley from Georgia to Deadwood twice and I hope to travel there again
My Daughter is there right now… enjoying the History with her husband and 4 Children… on a Cross Country Trip!
There is a sign at the cemetery saying Wild Bill Hickok to not reciprocate her love for him. Nice video
Loving a music men ain't always what it is supposed to be
Calamity Jane days are still celebrated in Princeton Mo.
I went on several trail rides, done 2 or 3 days before CJ day. Drinking and riding horses. Talk about a good time!
When the truth and the legend collide, print the legend
Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Good stuff
Happy New Year 🍾
I visited their graves. It made me very sad.
Ty.
CALAMITY in front of your name....watch out!🐎🤠
Thanks F Lives.
Happy NEW YEAR'S EVE 2020
Lol Funny Nancy! Left reply for you at MM. Sleep well!💌 i go again🙋💕
@@ELKE- Hey EB🥀
I did too at MM. Thought you were sleeping already. Now 12:28 going to sleep....must arise early😵and you know how much I L❤VE to sleep. TTYL. Hope your day is nice.
@@nancyM1313 Later here! but we did our greetings around! Lol I did sleep a bit.. Okay, see you! Thank you. Wish great week!💜
@@ELKE- 💜
Thanks for watching and happy new year!
Aces and Eights, Dead man's hand.
Happy New Year!!
Very interesting
🥳🥂🎉Happy New Year to you as well! Hope your🎄Christmas🎅 was merry!🎉🥂🥳
Happy New Year! Likewise!
Haunted eyes. The look of someone who has seen and experienced too much.
I’ve been to deadwood. Shame I can’t post photos. Went to the cemetery too and saw their graves. Deadwood is nice little town. Stayed for 2 days when I did a usa roadtrip last July
The story must have brought back memories!
Forgotten Lives absolutely did. Great video by the way
Man, this is so historically inaccurate Jane would be proud.
Thank you for your vedio
Another of the women forsaken as a child in poverty but she was caring.although she was alcoholic she was a brave woman and proved women could be as strong as a man in the days when all women took 2nd place .her care for those who were I'll reveals more.most folk only know the rough side of her.
I remember the term calamity jane!
My favorite western movie was HBOs DEADWOOD . CHECK IT OUT. I FORGOT THE NAME OF THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED CALAMITY JANE WAS BUT SHE REALLY NAILED IT. IAN MCSHANE, TIMOTHY OLYPHANT AND POWERS BOOTH ALSO TURNED IN STELLAR PERFORMANCES.
But did you see the final deadwood movie?2019 It was a shocker
But you were too lazy to Google it so you could make a decent post!
really informative. That part about Buffalo.. it might explain a lot about The city's challenges with Luck. not to be off topic but it Makes sense to me, as for decades we all Thought the Curse on Buffalo was about Native Rights and how the Locals had done them in and to Possess all the Gull to Use 'Bills', knowing its the Food base of the Many Nations and them Buffalo soldiers Killed like Costner in that movie and really did in so many Natives, just by starving them in But NOw. here is .. Got kicked out of town by the whole town and sure many a time Buffalo has kicked many a CDN out of town, or another local.. but i've been to them Bars.. and knowing watt light bulb now about how loses by the 4 times in the last Game of the season, the music city miracle and the Sabres with that skate in the BLUE and the goal still counted. no Luck.. and they had Video, like the JFK shooting.,, so there has Gandhi Be some sort of substance.. and here u come along with this 'incredible story', that i must admit is quite in depth and i have seen more than a few about her including one produced by FOX.. u knew they cared.? Great video,,.. Boom, drop the mic and Left to the Right./ Thanks and God Bless.
Best wishes for a Happy & Healthy New Year !!!
Thanks! Happy New Year!
Anybody else remember when Doris Day played Calamity in a duster ? I think it was called Deadwood and it was a straight bang- bang shoot em up movie not a musical .
Richard Putz I didn't know there was a non musical movie made about Calamity Jane starring Doris Day!
The only movie on this subject with Doris Day was called Calamity Jane in which there was a song called Deadwood Stage.
I love this woman. God bless her soul, and if she is still in purgatory, blessed Mother, bring her to Heaven asap. God's time is not our time.
Eww. Take your crazy elsewhere. She didn’t ask for your prayers.
Amazing to think she joined the Wild West Show the same year my grandmother was born.
The history channel says she got the nickname calamity Jane because calamity was slang for chlamdya and she had it snd would pass it to her clients
I heard it as she had an STD that they called the calamity and she spread it around thus gaining the moniker CalamityJane.
It's Saint "LOO-iss" like the name "Lewis." Thanks for the sad, but interesting story. She was quite a woman, kind yet haunted.
She was, but at least her time has been reported bless her.
Many strong women lost but hey we are not related but will celebrate.
I was inadvertently able to visit her grave.
Brave lady
No one can ever judge another.
❤
I doubt Jane knew the father's of any kids she had, her drinking was all consuming.