The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane: Volume 29

by Richard W. Etulain

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806168773
• ISBN13: 9780806168777
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"