CALAMITY JANE
Martha Jane Canary or Cannary was
born on 1st May 1852 in Princeton, Missouri, USA. Better known as Calamity
Jane, she was a frontierswoman and professional scout. She was recognized
as a very kind person to the sick and needy ones; and also for her habit of
wearing men’s clothes.
When she was young, her family and she moved many
times and her mother died. Therefore, when they established in one place, she
had to work to help her family; as she was the eldest of her brothers. She
worked on very different and odd jobs. One of them was delivering mail for the
pony express. Martha Jane was involved in several campaigns in the long running
military conflicts with American Indians. She’s written her autobiography and
published it in 1896, for publicity purposes.
Her death was very hurtful. Once, while she was
travelling on a train, she had been drinking heavily and became sick. She died
on the 1st August 1903, because of an inflammation of the bowels and
pneumonia.
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