COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Subject File, Calamity Jane "Calamity Jane and other lady wildcats"
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Subject 46a Calamity Jane
Item Description:
Calamity Jane - "Calamity Jane and Other Lady Wildcats", no published source; n.d.
Date:
Undated
Notes:
Canary, Martha Jane - aka "Calamity Jane" - two sisters
Notes:
scouted for Sioux on the Rosebud
Notes:
Hickok, James B. "Wild Bill" - last love
Notes:
Somers, Lieut.
Notes:
McCall, Jack - shot & killed Hickok
Notes:
Canary, Bob - "unambitious father
Notes:
Canary, Charlotte - "daring and roistering mother"
Notes:
laundress work
Notes:
last week of 1864 - parents failed to return home
Notes:
Fergus & Castner families took Canary girls into their homes
Notes:
Montana Post newspaper
Notes:
Fort Sanders (Albany Co. - winter, 1871- spring, 1872)
Notes:
Alder Gulch through 1865 and part of 1866
Notes:
"Madam Canary" invested in "Bird Cage" dance hall
Notes:
Salt Lake City (Utah - 1867)
Notes:
transcontinental railroad complete (1869) - golden spike at Promontory Point (Utah)
Notes:
Bannock (Utah)
Notes:
Madame Moustache - woman gambler
Notes:
Fort Steele (Carbon Co.) & Fort Bridger (Uinta Co.) - soldiers
Notes:
Piedmont, South Pass City, Rawlins & Green River - railroad construction towns (Wyo. Terr.)
Notes:
". . . harum-scarum origin on the social fringes of Princeton, Mo."
Notes:
Cheyenne & Fort Laramie (Laramie Co. - 1869-1870)
Notes:
Muscle Shells war
Notes:
Army campaign vs. Arizona Apache (1870-1871)
Notes:
Abiliene & Hayes City - Kansas cow towns
Notes:
Allegheny Dick - companion
Notes:
Mackay, Bob
Notes:
Blackfoot mining camp - now ghost town
Notes:
Egan, Capt. "Pat" - joined his company - named her "Calamity Jane"
Notes:
Siechrist, Sgt. Frank - Infantry
Notes:
"married" a railroad brakeman in Rawlins (Carbon Co. - 1874)
Notes:
moved to Virginia City (Mont.)
Notes:
worked in Green River (Sweetwater Co.) & South Pass City (Fremont Co.)
Filename:
WPA Sub 46A CALAMITY JANE.pdf
Type:
Text