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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane, 29
Finalist:Spur Awards -Biography (2015)
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Publish Date: Sep 10th, 2014
- Pages: 404
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.70in - 1.50in - 1.25lb
- EAN: 9780806146324
- Categories: • United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT• Women
About the Author
Etulain, Richard W.: - Richard W. Etulain is Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. He has served as editor of the New Mexico Historical Review and is the author or editor of more than 60 books, including Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West, Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry, and The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane.
Praise for this book
"Talk about myth busters! Richard Etulain's probing research, lively style, and scholarly maturity has resulted in a believable portrait of Calamity Jane the woman and an insightful analysis of Calamity the legend. This book is not to be missed by those interested in the West, its women, or its larger-than-life characters." Glenda Riley--author of The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
"Mr. Etulain's excellent book is a reminder that history can be a version of myth--in this case, a harmless and entertaining myth that we may be reluctant to give up."--The Wall Street Journal