Description
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.
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 01/04/2021
Pages: 404
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780806168777
ISBN10: 0806168773
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Biography & Autobiography | Women