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Searching For Calamity
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Author : Linda Jucovy
language : en
Publisher: Linda Jucovy
Release Date : 2012
Searching For Calamity written by Linda Jucovy and has been published by Linda Jucovy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional standards and yet achieved such enduring fame? But conventional standards do not apply. Calamity was poor, uneducated, and an alcoholic. For decades, she wandered through the small towns and empty spaces of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana. But she also had a natural talent for self-invention. She created a story about herself and promoted it tirelessly for much of her life. The story emphasized her love of adventure and the heroic role she played in key events in the early history of the American west. She became that story to people around the country who read about her. And she became that story to herself. The details about her exploits were rarely accurate, but a larger truth lay beneath them. In an era when there were few options for women, Calamity had the audacity to be herself. She lived as she pleased, which is to say that she allowed herself the same freedoms her male contemporaries assumed as their birthright. She spoke her mind. She flouted the rules. She dressed as a man when it was illegal for women to wear pants; hung out in saloons although that was unheard of for any woman who was not a prostitute; did men’s work; cursed, hollered, and smoked cigars. Although Calamity’s name is imprinted in history, most people know little about her. This highly readable biography brings Calamity to life against the backdrop of the American west and of women’s determination to break free from their historical constraints.
Calamity Jane
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Author : James D. McLaird
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-27
Calamity Jane written by James D. McLaird and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now. This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine. Always on the move across the northern plains, Martha was more camp follower than the scout of legend. A mother of two, she often found employment as waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl and was more likely to be wearing a dress than buckskin. But she was hard to ignore when she’d had a few drinks, and she exploited the aura of fame that dime novels created around her, even selling her autobiography and photos to tourists. Gun toting, swearing, hard drinking—Calamity Jane was all of these, to be sure. But whatever her flaws or foibles, James D. McLaird paints a compelling portrait of an unconventional woman who more than once turned the tables on those who sought to condemn or patronize her. He also includes dozens of photos—many never before seen—depicting Jane in her many guises. His book is a long-awaited biography of Martha Canary and the last word on Calamity Jane.
Calamity Jane
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Reference categories.
This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph—and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity Jane’s life and legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives. Etulain begins with a brief biography of Martha Canary, aka Calamity Jane (1856–1903), then analyzes the origins and growth of her legends. The sources, Etulain shows, reveal three versions of Calamity Jane. In the most popular one, she was a Wild Woman of the Old West who helped push a roaring frontier through its final stages. This is the Calamity Jane who fought Indians, marched with the military, and took on the bad guys. Early in her life she also hoped to embody the pioneer woman, seeking marriage and a stable family and home. A third, later version made of Calamity an angel of mercy who reached out to the poor and nursed smallpox victims no one else would help. The hyperbolic journalism of the Old West, as well as dime novels and the stretchers Calamity herself told in her interviews and autobiography, shaped her legends through much of the twentieth century. Many of the sensational early accounts of Calamity’s life, Etulain notes, were based on rumor and hearsay. In illuminating the role of the Deadwood Dick dime novel series and other pulp fiction in shaping what we know—or think we know—of the American West, Etulain underscores one of his fascinating themes: the power of popular culture. The product of twenty years’ labor sifting fact from falsehood or distortion, this bibliography and reader’s guide includes brief discussions of nearly every item’s contents, along with a terse, entertaining evaluation of its reliability.
Calamity
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Author : Karen R. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Calamity written by Karen R. Jones and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin’ tootin’ “lady wildcat” of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America’s most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her own right and through her association with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. In this engaging account, Karen Jones takes a fresh look at the story of this iconic frontierswoman. She pieces together what is known of Canary’s life and shows how a rough and itinerant lifestyle paved the way for the scattergun, alcohol-fueled heroics that dominated Canary’s career. Spanning Canary’s rise from humble origins to her role as “heroine of the plains” and the embellishment of her image over subsequent decades, Jones shows her to be feisty, eccentric, transgressive—and very much complicit in the making of the myth that was Calamity Jane.
Penny Dreadful Cooks Up A Calamity
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Author : Joanna Nadin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Penny Dreadful Cooks Up A Calamity written by Joanna Nadin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Children's stories, English categories.
Penny can't help but attract mischief, no matter where she goes.
Calamity Jane
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Author : Stephen Krensky
language : en
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Release Date : 2006-08-01
Calamity Jane written by Stephen Krensky and has been published by Millbrook Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Calamity Jane was always in search of adventure. Nothing scared her—not rattlesnakes or wild horses or even Wild Bill Hickok. Quicksand could not keep her down. As an army scout, Calamity Jane rescued a wounded captain from the middle of a bloody battle. She never even got a scratch. As a Pony Express rider, she outwitted a band of robbers and sent them running. Even smallpox didn’t dare tangle with her. Catch some of Calamity Jane’s spirit in this fast-paced tale.
How To Survive Any Natural Calamity
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Author : Wings of Success
language : en
Publisher: Aldo Press
Release Date :
How To Survive Any Natural Calamity written by Wings of Success and has been published by Aldo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discover how you can emerge as a hero in case of any calamity and how you can save your familly members, as wll others during any kind of disaster!...
Calamity
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Author : Eric McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-04
Calamity written by Eric McLaughlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-04 with categories.
The world as Ethan knew it has ended. It has been two years since the night the Resistance fell and Nodens was exposed. Since the Dullahan took Caratacus' power for himself and with it, the mantle of God of Death. Since Allison was taken and the last of the Pen Draig tore each other apart, in turn condemning the Earth itself to pay the ultimate price. Everyone is searching for something.Allison searches for meaning in a world without limit or end. Nodens searches for the past, for a return to the glory of an eternity as a God. They say the greatest among us are the ones that fall the hardest. Nodens knows that better than most. The Shadowman, as ever, searches only for Ethan.The Singer searches for absolution, for absolvement from a crime so heinous he longs for a death he can never reach.Ethan Daniel sifts through the detritus of a world gone to hell to find something, anything of the love he lost in Allison, and the man he needs to become to find her once more. Everyone is searching for something. But sometimes you get more than you bargained for. Sometimes you should have left well enough alone. Sometimes, it is better to leave the stone unturned than to bear the consequences of its upheaval.
Oh Calamity
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Author : Anne Merrick
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1998
Oh Calamity written by Anne Merrick and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Children's stories categories.
Calamity is a little mouse who enjoys singing - until one day she loses her voice. Help Calamity find her voice by looking here and there and everywhere, especially under the flaps.
Visions
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Author : Bp. David Hummell Greer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Visions written by Bp. David Hummell Greer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Sermons, American categories.