An autobiography by one of the Westis most notorious women.
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.[...]
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.[...]
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, f[...]
bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay
Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn't so easy...especially for women. Martha Jane Cannary was a bona fide frontierswoman, a professional scout, a drunk, and sometime whore, doing whatever it took to stay alive in the hardscrabble days of American expansion. Writ[...]
Denna bok är tredje delen i en lyrisk trilogi om tre historiska personers livsöden. Den första delen heter "Jag, Öpir" och den andra "Gramscis postuma anteckningar". Samlingstiteln på projektet är "Ödestrilogin". Calamity Jane levde i amerikanska Västern under andra hälften av 1800-talet. H[...]
Mellan 1877 och 1902 skrev Jane brev till sin bortadopterade dotter, brev hon aldrig skickade. Här framträder människan bakom legenden, en kvinna med hemligheter, sorger och ett ovanligt mod att gå sina egna vägar i en hård omgivning.
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