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  Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane is a female a cappella group whose seven members herald from around the Bay Area, including the East Bay, San Francisco, and the South Bay.
In 1999, Calamity Jane entered the world of original music and is proud to have completed three original songs which will they debuted in Fall 1999.
Calamity Jane, in the fall of 1998, released its first CD entitled "The Road Ahead" which is a lively compilation of the songs the group has perfected over the last 5 years.
www.singers.com /contemp/calamityjane.html   (443 words)

  
 Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Canary biography
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Martha Jane set herself apart from other women in that she could work and socialize with hard and tough frontiersmen: from digging for gold, drinking in bars, cussing and dressing like a man, she was mostly accepted by them.
As far as Jane's ability with a gun is concerned, she did wear them and was apparently quite familiar and skilled with them.
Calamity Jane from the Adams Museum and House in Deadwood, South Dakota
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  Digital Deadwood - Calamity Jane HistoryLink Data
Jane took the money raised and promptly bought all of her friends drinks until there was no money left for the poor girl.
According to her dying wish, Calamity Jane is buried next to Wild Bill Hickok on Mt. Moriah overlooking the city of Deadwood.
Calamity Jane in 1876, the same year she came to Deadwood with Wild Bill Hickok.
www.digitaldeadwood.com /historylink/people/jane.html   (661 words)

  
  BT Research - Calamity Jane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1853–August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman and professional scout most well-known for her claim of being a close friend of Wild Bill Hickok, but also having gained fame fighting Native Americans.
Calamity Jane was born Martha Jane Canary in Princeton, Missouri, the youngest of six children, having two brothers and three sisters.
Calamity Jane was a prominent character in the Deadwood Dick series of dime novels beginning with the first appearance of Deadwood Dick in Beadle's half Dime Library issue #1 in 1877.
www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=Calamity_Jane   (1316 words)

  
  Calamity Jane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calamity Jane, as she would become known, did live a very colorful and eventful life starting in 1870, but as historians have since discovered, she was prone to exaggerations about her exploits, and, at times, outright lies.
Jane died from complications of pneumonia in 1903.
Calamity Jane would claim throughout the remainder of her life to have been one of Hickok's closest friends, and over time that became the version that most often history remembered as fact, when actuality it was not.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calamity_Jane   (1531 words)

  
 Calamity Jane (1953 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1953 film, Calamity Jane is a "Wild West"-themed film It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores a romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West.
Calamity is heartbroken, and reveals she was crazy about Danny, while Bill admitts that he was in love with Katie.
The next day, Calam goes onto a hill where she sings Secret Love before she rides off to town on her horse, but, when she talks to people, they just ignore her; they haven't forgotten about the way she behaved the night before.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calamity_Jane_(musical)   (1119 words)

  
 Calamity Jane - Black Hills
Calamity Jane was a woman ahead of the time; however, she had many unfortunate faults.
Calamity Jane, when not on the open road, could be found at the local saloons drinking, chewing tobacco, and being the boisterous life of the party.
Calamity Jane Herself added to the speculation by telling stories of a romance with him, and moments before her death she allegedly requested to be buried next to Wild Bill.
www.blackhillsportal.com /spps/sitepage.cfm?catID=20   (888 words)

  
 Calamity Jane biography
Calamity Jane was born May 1, 1852, near Princeton, Mo. with the given name of Martha Jane Cannary.
It is said on recovering from this attack Captain Egan laughed and proclaimed, “I name you Calamity Jane, the heroine of the plain.” The nickname followed her the rest of her life.
Calamity Jane was well respected for her horsemanship and ability to make the trip quickly and with little incident.
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 Calamity Jane 2
Calamity, as well as her three sisters, was forced to the streets to survive on handouts.
One time Calamity was forced to ride a grueling 90 miles to deliver a very important package to Deadwood, the conditions being as harsh and wet as they were caused her to be stricken with a severe illness.
Calamity soon observed the coach was being pursued by a band of Indians.
wfps.k12.mt.us /Teachers/gouldda/history2001ne/calamity_jane_2.htm   (2721 words)

  
 Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane and I, she then a young girl and I somewhat older, but still a boy, when I think about it now from this vista of sixty plus years, went out to the place where Henry hung to witness for ourselves that he was truly dead.
Martha Jane chose to dress not unlike a hurdy-gurdy girl for this special occasion for she was sick of being viewed as a kid by me and by men in general.
Calamity Jane, traveling with a dime museum, passed through Helena in 1897 where I happened to be visiting at the time and I paid my dime to see her and quite a sight she was, too.
www.instruction.greenriver.edu /Library/Willson/calamity.htm   (5208 words)

  
 Calamity Jane (1953 film) at AllExperts
The 1953 film, Calamity Jane is a "Wild West"-themed film It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores a romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West.
Calamity is heartbroken, and reveals she was crazy about Danny, while Bill admitts that he was in love with Katie.
The next day, Calam goes onto a hill where she sings Secret Love before she rides off to town on her horse, but, when she talks to people, they just ignore her; they haven't forgotten about the way she behaved the night before.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/calamity_jane_(1953_film).htm   (1190 words)

  
 Cowgirl Calamity Jane
When Calamity Jane was in Wyomin', in 1870, she joined General Custer as a scout at Fork Russell.
Calamity hadn't been there for the total of seventeen years, so it was quite exciting for Calamity's many friends.
Calamity's wish, to be buried next to a very close friend that had passed away many years ago, had been granted.
www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us /~mcurran/student1/jane   (628 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- CALAMITY JANE
CALAMITY JANE ($20) is a big, boisterous delight of a musical from Hollywood’s golden age.
However, fighting Indians is nothing compared to the trouble Calamity Jane finds herself in when she promises to go to Chicago, and bring a famous actress back to her hometown of Deadwood.
Having never seen Adelaide Adams (Gale Robbins), Calamity Jane goes to the actress’s dressing room after her final performance in Chicago, but instead of finding the actress, Calamity stumbles on her maid Katie Brown (Allyn McLerie), who is wearing one of the actress’s castoff costumes.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_review_2002/calamity-jane-dvd.htm   (667 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Calamity Jane: Her Life and Her Legend: English Books: Doris Faber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Calamity Jane was a larger-than-life six-gun-shooting frontierswoman, and Faber skillfully interweaves snippets from the life of the real woman with an exploration of the legend that grew up around her, nourished in large part by Ned Wheeler's dime novels.
Grade 6-9-- Faber separates the facts from the myths about the life of Martha Jane Cannary, emphasizing that as Calamity Jane she was able to break away from the traditional female roles of the late 1800s.
In spite of Faber's thesis that Jane was an early emancipated woman, the reality was that she was virtually ruled by her alcoholism and was frequently exploited by men.
www.amazon.de /Calamity-Jane-Her-Life-Legend/dp/0395563968   (452 words)

  
 Calamity Jane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was during her campaign with Custer that she gained her nickname, "Calamity Jane": During a skirmish with some Indians, a captain was shot and Calamity turned in her saddle just in time to see him about to fall from his horse.
Calamity’s time spent in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territories is where she gained most of her notoriety and fame.
Calamity settled down and led a quiet home life, giving birth to a daughter who she said had, ‘the temper of her mother’.
romancereaderatheart.com /history/calamity   (834 words)

  
 Here Comes Calamity Jane
Calamity saw the inside of jails in many western towns, but her offenses were invariably liquor-related.
Jane was a healthy girl of an affectionate disposition, and naturally had many husbands, license shops and preachers being scarce in those days, she would select a new one when occasion made it desirable or necessity required.
Calamity Jane was that sort of woman, and known details about her life are hard to find … she left little behind in the way of tangible evidence which could be used by historians to reconstruct the story of her checkered career.
www.deadwoodmagazine.com /archivedsite/Archives/CalamityJane.htm   (1495 words)

  
 Calamity Jane
Martha Jane Canary was born in the backwoods, on a ranch in Princeton, Missouri.
Calamity Jane would later find out she would be the oldest sister to five brothers and sisters.
Calamity Jane was always the one to stand out in the crowd and people always said that she would amount out to nothing, but they aren’t in the history books today are they!
wfps.k12.mt.us /Teachers/gouldda/history2001ne/calamity_jane.htm   (1478 words)

  
 Calamity Jane Biography
Martha Jane Cannary-Burke better known as Calamity Jane (May 1 1852 (?) - August 1 1903) was a American Indian fighter and frontierswoman who came to the public eye via her association with Wild Bill Hickok.
In 1876, Jane served briefly as a rider with the Pony Express and settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the Black Hills region.
In 1878 Jane nursed the victims of a smallpox epidemic in the Dakota territories.
www.ebiog.com /biography/3711/calamity-jane/bio.htm   (291 words)

  
 Calamity Jane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha Jane Canary (1848-1903) was born in Princeton, Missouri.
It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in 'The Luck of Roaring Camp.'...
The Livingstone Enterprise, August 8, 1903, "Calamity is Dead", as quoted in "Calamity's in Town," p.32, by Bill and Doris Whithorn, 510 S. 8th St., Livingston, MT 59047.
www.cowgirls.com /dream/cowgals/calamity.htm   (597 words)

  
 Robin Weigert as Calamity Jane: HBO: Deadwood
Born Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane is nearly as famous as Hickok was and is known to be as tough as any man in the West.
Raised in the mining camps of Wyoming, she is a legendary horsewoman and crack shot, and is rumored to have been an Army scout for Custer.
A notorious boozer and brawler - and one of the most foul-mouthed frontierspeople of either sex - Jane was loyal and absolutely dedicated to Wild Bill, and his murder sends her into a terrible bender.
www.hbo.com /deadwood/cast/character/calamityjane.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Calamity Jane - The Films of Doris Day
"Calamity Jane" was fortunate in having one of the best singers in the world, who started her career as a dancer, playing the lead role.
"Calamity Jane" centres around her effort to save Henry Miller's theatre/saloon from ruin by bringing the much admired, beautiful singing star, Adelaide Adams, to perform in Deadwood's premiere entertainment venue, The Golden Garter.
Meanwhile, 'Calam' is forced by Bill Hickock to face reality as he urges her to let Gillmartin go.
www.dorisday.net /calamity_jane.html   (1778 words)

  
 Calamity Jane
Calamity is often referred to as Martha Jane Cannary (sometimes spelled Canary) but the middle name is open to question; she didn’t claim it in her so-called autobiography.
Calamity was Calamity …it was part of the expenses of the night to keep her glass filled … Calamity Jane was part of the overhead.
Calamity Jane (Martha Cannary) died penniless, a not unusual condition for her, on August 1, 1903, in a Terry hotel.
www.deadwoodmagazine.com /archivedsite/Archives/Girls_Calamity.htm   (2112 words)

  
 Outlaw Women - Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane's may have been second only to Buffalo Bill in exaggerating her early life exploits into something that only a dime store novelist would believe.
"Calamity's" role in taking care of the family became vital, and she took whatever job was available in order to provide food and shelter to her brothers and sisters.
Calamity Jane's version of the story is quite a bit different, "Upon hearing of the shooting, I made my way to the saloon and found "Wild Bill" dead on the floor," she said.
www.outlawwomen.com /CalamityJane.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Calamity Jane - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Calamity Jane - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Calamity Jane, real name Martha Jane Canary (c.
Jane Eyre, second novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
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 Calamity Jane
CALAMITY JANE was adapted for the stage from the film musical of the same name with Doris Day in the title role and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok.
Our story tells of famed Calamity Jane who dresses, rides and shoots like a man, but given the proper chance can be a beautiful girl who hankers for the love of a man. The man may be dashing Lt. Danny Gilmartin or the justly famed Wild Bill Hickok.
CALAMITY JANE closes joyously with all of Deadwood's citizens attending a double wedding, that of Calam to Wild Bill and Katie to Lt. Danny Gilmartin.
www.tamswitmark.com /musicals/calamityjane.html   (770 words)

  
 Deadwood, South Dakota Revealed - About CALAMITY JANE
Brief Bio: According to her ghost-written autobiography, she was born "Marthy" [Martha] Jane Cannary, [possibly the daughter of Robert and Charlotte Cannary], in Princeton, Missouri on May 1, 1852 (although some claim her birthdate was between 1844-48).
In 1876, Jane served briefly as a rider with the Pony Express and settled in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota, in the Black Hills region.
In 1878 Jane nursed the victims of a smallpox epidemic in the Dakota territories.
www.deadwood.searchroots.com /calamity.htm   (504 words)

  
 Calamity Jane - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
CALAMITY JANE [Calamity Jane], c.1852-1903, American frontier character, b.
Little is known of her early life beyond the fact that she moved with her parents to Virginia City, Mont., in 1865 and that she grew up in mining camps and rough frontier communities.
Calamity Jane: Part cheers, mostly booze: With her Wild Bill Hickok days behind her, legendary woman made quite a splash with Inland Northwest locals.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/C/Calamity.asp   (418 words)

  
 Martha Jane Cannary – “Calamity Jane”
Unfortunately, although many stories of Calamity exist, not many of them seem to have been authenticated - and most of the ones that she herself told in her journals of later years appear to have been met with scepticism and disbelief by those who have read them.
According to Martha Jane's story, it was at this time that she started to wear men's clothing, and according to another source, it was when she was found to be a woman in 1876 that her military career with various Indian campaigns was brought to an end.
Calamity herself tells a much different story which involved saving the life of a Captain Egan during a skirmish with the Indians and who later gave her the nickname.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/womens_history/34995   (479 words)

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