The life and legends of Calamity Jane
(2014)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/CALAMITY JANE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/CALAMITY JANE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
DESCRIPTION

xviii, 381 pages : illustrations

ISBN/ISSN
9780806146324 (hardcover : alk. paper), 080614632X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Foundations, stable and broken -- Finding her way -- Negotiating Deadwood -- Overnight fame: a dime novel heroine -- On the road again -- The decline of a life -- Imagining Calamity: launching a legendary heroine, 1903-1930 -- The search for a coherent Calamity, 1930-1960 -- A new gray Calamity, 1960-1990 -- A complex Calamity, 1990-present -- Conclusion: pondering a life and legends