With Calamity Jane, writer/director Rémi Chayé explored the origin story of the legendary American frontierswoman of the same name, digging into her childhood and the ways in which she defied ...

CHAYÉ: It was on ARTE, the French channel.The documentary [Calamity Jane: Wild West Legend] was very simple, especially [in its depiction of] her childhood because there was nothing much to say ...

On Aug. 2, 1903, a day after she died in faraway Terry, S.D., Calamity Jane's obituary appeared in the New York Times. The subhead described her as a "Woman Who Became Famous as an Indian Fighter ...

After being a teacher and a librarian, Glenda Bell switched gears 20 years ago and became Calamity Jane for a living. Traveling with her friend Barb Fisher, the Powell, Wyo., resident appeared as ...

In “Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend,” McLaird, a professor emeritus at Dakota Wesleyan University, sets out to correct the errors that plague Canary scholarship and, more significantly ...

Returning to a few of the key locations from her storied life for Calamity Jane: Wild West Legend, France-based actor and filmmaker Gregory Monro aims to separate the folklore, some of which Jane ...

COURTING CALAMITY: Sometime around July 12, 1876, the famed lawman and gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok rode into the mining boomtown of Deadwood, S.D., in the Black Hills. Along for the ride, which ...

“Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend,” by James D. McLaird (University of Oklahoma, 384 pages, $29.95) Debunking a legend isn’t easy. We Westerners like our myths, even if the truth is ...

To play Martha Jane Canarray, better known as Calamity Jane, she had 2 1/2 months of bullwhip training. “I was a tomboy when I was a kid,” Barkin says. “I used to play cowboy with my brother.

EAGLE – Calamity Jane was one of the Wild West’s most colorful figures. She dressed as a man, shot as true and straight as any of her famed male counterparts and disdained most of the feminine ...

While Calamity Jane died over a century ago in 1903 at the age of 51, Helena audience members are invited to see her ride again in this riotous exploration of history, myth and legend.