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@@ -0,0 +1,599 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane + +Author: Calamity Jane + +Posting Date: July 21, 2008 [EBook #490] +Release Date: April, 1996 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF CALAMITY JANE *** + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CALAMITY JANE + +BY + +HERSELF + + + +My maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missourri, +May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two +brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children. As a +child I always had a fondness for adventure and out-door exercise and +especial fondness for horses which I began to ride at an early age and +continued to do so until I became an expert rider being able to ride +the most vicious and stubborn of horses, in fact the greater portion of +my life in early times was spent in this manner. + +In 1865 we emigrated from our homes in Missourri by the overland route +to Virginia City, Montana, taking five months to make the journey. +While on the way the greater portion of my time was spent in hunting +along with the men and hunters of the party, in fact I was at all times +with the men when there was excitement and adventures to be had. By +the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good +shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age. I remember many +occurrences on the journey from Missourri to Montana. Many times in +crossing the mountains the conditions of the trail were so bad that we +frequently had to lower the wagons over ledges by hand with ropes for +they were so rough and rugged that horses were of no use. We also had +many exciting times fording streams for many of the streams in our way +were noted for quicksands and boggy places, where, unless we were very +careful, we would have lost horses and all. Then we had many dangers +to encounter in the way of streams swelling on account of heavy rains. +On occasions of that kind the men would usually select the best places +to cross the streams, myself on more than one occasion have mounted my +pony and swam across the stream several times merely to amuse myself +and have had many narow escapes from having both myself and pony washed +away to certain death, but as the pioneers of those days had plenty of +courage we overcame all obstacles and reached Virginia City in safety. + +Mother died at Black Foot, Montana, 1866, where we buried her. I left +Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during +the summer. Remained in Utah until 1867, where my father died, then +went to Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, where we arrived May 1, 1868, +then went to Piedmont, Wyoming, with U.P. Railway. Joined General +Custer as a scout at Fort Russell, Wyoming, in 1870, and started for +Arizona for the Indian Campaign. Up to this time I had always worn the +costume of my sex. When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a +soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly +at home in men's clothes. + +Was in Arizona up to the winter of 1871 and during that time I had a +great many adventures with the Indians, for as a scout I had a great +many dangerous missions to perform and while I was in many close places +always succeeded in getting away safely for by this time I was +considered the most reckless and daring rider and one of the best shots +in the western country. + +After that campaign I returned to Fort Sanders, Wyoming, remained there +until spring of 1872, when we were ordered out to the Muscle Shell or +Nursey Pursey Indian outbreak. In that war Generals Custer, Miles, +Terry and Crook were all engaged. This campaign lasted until fall of +1873. + +It was during this campaign that I was christened Calamity Jane. It +was on Goose Creek, Wyoming, where the town of Sheridan is now located. +Capt. Egan was in command of the Post. We were ordered out to quell an +uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous +skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several +severely wounded. When on returning to the Post we were ambushed about +a mile and a half from our destination. When fired upon Capt. Egan was +shot. I was riding in advance and on hearing the firing turned in my +saddle and saw the Captain reeling in his saddle as though about to +fall. I turned my horse and galloped back with all haste to his side +and got there in time to catch him as he was falling. I lifted him +onto my horse in front of me and succeeded in getting him safely to the +Fort. Capt. Egan on recovering, laughingly said: "I name you Calamity +Jane, the heroine of the plains." I have borne that name up to the +present time. We were afterwards ordered to Fort Custer, where Custer +city now stands, where we arrived in the spring of 1874; remained +around Fort Custer all summer and were ordered to Fort Russell in fall +of 1874, where we remained until spring of 1875; was then ordered to +the Black Hills to protect miners, as that country was controlled by +the Sioux Indians and the government had to send the soldiers to +protect the lives of the miners and settlers in that section. Remained +there until fall of 1875 and wintered at Fort Laramie. In spring of +1876, we were ordered north with General Crook to join Gen'ls Miles, +Terry and Custer at Big Horn river. During this march I swam the +Platte river at Fort Fetterman as I was the bearer of important +dispatches. I had a ninety mile ride to make, being wet and cold, I +contracted a severe illness and was sent back in Gen. Crook's ambulance +to Fort Fetterman where I laid in the hospital for fourteen days. When +able to ride I started for Fort Laramie where I met Wm. Hickock, +better known as Wild Bill, and we started for Deadwood, where we +arrived about June. + +During the month of June I acted as a pony express rider carrying the +U.S. mail between Deadwood and Custer, a distance of fifty miles, over +one of the roughest trails in the Black Hills country. As many of the +riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail +and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting +mail and money between these points. It was considered the most +dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick +shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers +looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed +my mark. I made the round trip every two days which was considered +pretty good riding in that country. Remained around Deadwood all that +summer visiting all the camps within an area of one hundred miles. My +friend, Wild Bill, remained in Deadwood during the summer with the +exception of occasional visits to the camps. On the 2nd of August, +while setting at a gambling table in the Bell Union saloon, in +Deadwood, he was shot in the back of the head by the notorious Jack +McCall, a desperado. I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of +the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found +that my friend had been killed by McCall. I at once started to look +for the assassian and found him at Shurdy's butcher shop and grabbed a +meat cleaver and made him throw up his hands; through the excitement on +hearing of Bill's death, having left my weapons on the post of my bed. +He was then taken to a log cabin and locked up, well secured as every +one thought, but he got away and was afterwards caught at Fagan's ranch +on Horse Creek, on the old Cheyenne road and was then taken to Yankton, +Dak., where he was tried, sentenced and hung. + +I remained around Deadwood locating claims, going from camp to camp +until the spring of 1877, where one morning, I saddled my horse and +rode towards Crook city. I had gone about twelve miles from Deadwood, +at the mouth of Whitewood creek, when I met the overland mail running +from Cheyenne to Deadwood. The horses on a run, about two hundred +yards from the station; upon looking closely I saw they were pursued by +Indians. The horses ran to the barn as was their custom. As the +horses stopped I rode along side of the coach and found the driver John +Slaughter, lying face downwards in the boot of the stage, he having +been shot by the Indians. When the stage got to the station the +Indians hid in the bushes. I immediately removed all baggage from the +coach except the mail. I then took the driver's seat and with all +haste drove to Deadwood, carrying the six passengers and the dead +driver. + +I left Deadwood in the fall of 1877, and went to Bear Butte Creek with +the 7th Cavalry. During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and +the town of Sturgis. In 1878 I left the command and went to Rapid city +and put in the year prospecting. + +In 1879 I went to Fort Pierre and drove trains from Rapid city to Fort +Pierre for Frank Wite then drove teams from Fort Pierce to Sturgis for +Fred. Evans. This teaming was done with oxen as they were better +fitted for the work than horses, owing to the rough nature of the +country. + +In 1881 I went to Wyoming and returned in 1882 to Miles city and took +up a ranch on the Yellow Stone, raising stock and cattle, also kept a +way side inn, where the weary traveler could be accommodated with food, +drink, or trouble if he looked for it. Left the ranch in 1883, went to +California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the +latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884. Left San Francisco in +the summer of 1884 for Texas, stopping at Fort Yuma, Arizona, the +hottest spot in the United States. Stopping at all points of interest +until I reached El Paso in the fall. While in El Paso, I met Mr. +Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. As I +thought I had travelled through life long enough alone and thought it +was about time to take a partner for the rest of my days. We remained +in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889. On October 28th, 1887, +I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at +least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother. + +When we left Texas we went to Boulder, Colo., where we kept a hotel +until 1893, after which we travelled through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, +Washington, Oregon, then back to Montana, then to Dakota, arriving in +Deadwood October 9th, 1895, after an absence of seventeen years. + +My arrival in Deadwood after an absence of so many years created quite +an excitement among my many friends of the past, to such an extent that +a vast number of the citizens who had come to Deadwood during my +absence who had heard so much of Calamity Jane and her many adventures +in former years were anxious to see me. Among the many whom I met were +several gentlemen from eastern cities who advised me to allow myself to +be placed before the public in such a manner as to give the people of +the eastern cities an opportunity of seeing the Woman Scout who was +made so famous through her daring career in the West and Black Hill +countries. + +An agent of Kohl & Middleton, the celebrated Museum men came to +Deadwood, through the solicitation of the gentleman who I had met there +and arrangements were made to place me before the public in this +manner. My first engagement began at the Palace Museum, Minneapolis, +January 20th, 1896, under Kohl and Middleton's management. + +Hoping that this little history of my life may interest all readers, I +remain as in the older days, + + +Yours, + +Mrs. M. 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