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Reviewed on January 10, 2020 | Nonfiction
Jones (environmental & cultural history, Univ. of Kent) offers a fascinating account of the life of Martha Jane Canary (1852–1903), aka Calamity Jane. Like her contemporaries Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody and many others who lived on the 19th-century American frontier, Canary led an adventurous life, and the factual details of her experience are difficult to separate from the myths. Jones traces Canary's early life...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
