WEST WORDS; Uppity woman; Calamity Jane The Woman and the Legend James D. McLaird University of Oklahoma Press: 378 pp., $29.95 HOME EDITION
James D. McLaird, professor emeritus of history at Dakota Wesleyan University, sets out to answer that question in his definitive biography of Martha Jane Canary, the woman who came to be known as Calamity Jane. Canary was illiterate, and her ghostwritten 1896 autobiography is "so filled with e...
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| Published in | The Los Angeles times |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Los Angeles, Calif
Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
16.10.2005
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