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Tango01  | 08 Nov 2024 4:33 p.m. PST |
… for an answer.
"You would be forgiven in describing Calamity Jane as an iconoclast whose flouting of 19th-century female mores launched her into exceptional fame and fortune in a male-dominated American West.
It's true the woman behind the fictional heroine—born Martha Jane Canary—was a buckskin-clad, gun-slinging, foulmouthed cowgirl whose affinity for alcohol was legendary, even among men. But that's where facts diverge significantly from fiction…"
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