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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 Witc 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. BURK + +BETTER KNOWN AS CALAMITY JANE + + + +Project Gutenberg Etext of Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane + diff --git a/old/cjane10.zip b/old/cjane10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7df765c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/cjane10.zip |