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Name: Calamity Jane Variant Name: Martha Jane Cannary Birth Date: May 1, 1852 Death Date: August 1, 1903 Place of Birth: Princeton, Missouri, United States Place of Death: Terry, South Dakota, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: frontierswoman
Encyclopedia of World Biography on Calamity Jane Martha Jane Cannary, known as Calamity Jane (1852-1903), was a notorious American frontier woman in the days of the Wild West. As unconventional and wild as the territory she roamed, she has become a legend. The most likely date of Jane Cannary's birth is May 1, 1852, probably at Princeton, Missouri. When she was 12 or 13, the family headed west along the Overland Route, reaching Virginia City, Montana, five months later. En route Jane learned to be a teamster and to snap 30-foot bullwhackers. Her father died in 1866 and her mother died a year later. Late in 1867 Jane was in Salt Lake City. Until the early 1870s nothing more is known of Jane. Then she appeared at Rawlins, Wyo., where she dressed and acted like a man and hired out as a mule skinner, bullwhacker, and railroad worker. "Calamity" became part of her name; she was proud of it. | |
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