Martha “Jane” Cannary’s childhood was kinda rough, her parents’ early departure in life leaving her in charge of five younger siblings as she was about 14, forcing her to cross the state of Wyoming in a wagon despite all dangers. At least, that’s what her own written biography wanted people to remember the myth she had become for, the legend she was very keen to stage and self-promote in the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Famous for wearing men’s attire, an unafraid ability of whiskey-swilling, sharp-shooting, scouting for the Army and her friendship with Wild Bill Hickok. Calamity Jane, the rowdy woman of the West.
