| Description |
1 online resource (x, 303 pages), 12 unnumbered pages of plates. |
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text file |
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PDF |
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Degruyterct |
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Degruyterct.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- Introduction. The Story of Calamity Jane: Tall Tales, Gender Possibility, and Frontier Celebrity -- Chapter One. "A Fearless Rider for a Girl of My Age": Martha Canary Goes West (c.1852-70) -- Chapter Two. "I Name You Calamity Jane": Crook, Custer, and Cross-Dressing in the US Cavalry (c.1870-7 -- Chapter Three. "Calamity Jane Has Arrived!": From Deadwood to Dime Novel (1876-95) -- Chapter Four. "Heroine of a Thousand Thrilling Adventures": Calamity Jane and the Culture of Frontier Celebrity (1895-1903) -- Chapter Five. "Bury Me Next to Wild Bill": Committing 138 Calamity to Popular Memory (1903-35) -- Chapter Six. "How the West Was Sung": Femininity and Fakery on the Hollywood Frontier (1935-60) -- Chapter Seven. "A Feminist in Buckskin": Performance, Profanity, and Sexual Politics on the New Western Frontier (1960-2000) -- Conclusion. From Doris to Deadwood and Back: The Continuing Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Calamity Jane, 1856-1903.
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Calamity Jane, 1856-1903. (OCoLC)fst00062290
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Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
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Pioneers. (OCoLC)fst01064447
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Women pioneers. (OCoLC)fst01178307
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West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Karen R., 1972- Calamity. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020 0300212801 (OCoLC)1113247687 |
| ISBN |
9780300252125 (electronic book) |
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0300252129 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.12987/9780300252125 doi |
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