Calamity
Calamity by Karen Jones, published by Yale University Press on February 4, 2020, is a first edition that spans 314 pages. This book presents a detailed account of Martha Jane Canary, famously known as Calamity Jane, who emerged as a notable figure in the Wild West. Through her brave and resourceful nature, she navigated a male-dominated era, becoming a celebrity alongside figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody.
Readers will find an engaging exploration of Calamity Jane’s life, highlighting her rise from humble beginnings to her status as a “heroine of the plains.” Karen Jones examines how Canary’s rough lifestyle contributed to her legendary persona, revealing the complexities of her character and the myth-making surrounding her. The narrative delves into themes of biography and history, particularly focusing on women’s roles in the 19th-century American West.
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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.
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