Searching for Calamity The Life and Times of Calamity Jane

Name: Searching for Calamity The Life and Times of Calamity Jane
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ISBN: 9780985300302

ISBN-10: 0985300302

ISBN-13: 9780985300302

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Authors: Linda Jucovy

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“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional standards and yet achieved such enduring fame? But conventional standards do not apply. Calamity was poor, uneducated, and an alcoholic. For decades, she wandered through the small towns and empty spaces of the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana. But she also had a natural talent for self-invention. She created a story about herself and promoted it tirelessly for much of her life. The story emphasized her love of adventure and the heroic role…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Stampede Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Linda Jucovy has been writing professionally for more than thirty years and has published widely on contemporary social issues. "Searching for Calamity" is her first biography. A former college instructor, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.