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Martha “Calamity Jane” Canary

2002

Martha “Calamity Jane” Canary

Canary was born in Princeton, Missouri. This hard drinking woman wore men’s clothing, used their bawdy language, chewed tobacco, and was handy with a gun. She traveled from Arizona though the Dakota territories during her rough life. At her death, the citizens of Deadwood remembered the “White Devil of the Yellowstone” as a saint, where she helped nurse the sick during a smallpox plague. She is buried near her friend, Wild Bill Hickok at Deadwood, South Dakota.

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