Canary lived on for 27 more years as a dime ... Wheeler, the author who seized on Calamity Jane in his Deadwood Dick novels, “had already written about ‘Hurricane Nell,’ a fictional ...

DEADWOOD | Romantics would have us believe that Calamity Martha Jane Canary, who rode into Deadwood in the summer of 1876 with Wild Bill Hickok and Colorado Charlie Utter, was a fragrant ...

But Martha Jane Canary’s real life story bears little ... summer of 1876 when she sauntered down the dusty main street of Deadwood, South Dakota, on horseback in a suit of buckskin alongside ...

Martha Jane Canary, or better known as Calamity Jane, was indeed one of the most famous of legends to come from Deadwood. Canary, the oldest of six children, relocated in her early childhood from ...

Second only to Wild Bill in the pantheon of Wild West mythos to call Deadwood home, Martha Jane Canary, better known as "Calamity Jane," was likewise portrayed with a fair amount of accuracy as ...

Nee Martha Canary, she was less -- and more -- than ... For all executive producer David Milch's claimsfor its veracity, HBO's "Deadwood" got Jane wrong: She wasn't an idle drunk in buckskins ...

By the summer of 1876 it was as Calamity Jane that Canary joined a pack train bound from Wyoming to the gold boomtown of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. During this journey, Jane met James Butler ...

who brought Martha Jane Canary aka Calamity Jane to life on the show. Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert), and Joanie Stubbs (Kim Dickens) in "Deadwood: The Movie" Photo courtesy of HBO Mab: When did th ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a larger series that will include stories on the history, violence, vice and historical preservation efforts in Deadwood ... "Calamity Jane" ring as some ...