The Incredible True Story Behind the Legend | Calamity Jane 

Here's to you Calamity Jane! An incredible woman! I am Martha Jane too

@@janeygourley8008A Lovely Name!!! 👍🏻

@@janetcw9808 thank you Janet! I never liked my first name and was never called by it unless I was in trouble lol! I asked mom why she named me that, it's not a family name. She said she just thought it was pretty.

A child every 2 years.

she was known to post help wanted adds in newspapers and lure young ladies as young as 13 to deadwood. Then refuse to pay their way back home when they learned the only job was as prostitutes. If they refused she would throw them out on the streets with nothing. It is well known that her and Colorado Charlie" Utter trapped many in prostitution this way. She was not a good person.

Beyond that she was known to post help wanted adds in newspapers and lure young ladies as young as 13 to deadwood. Then refuse to pay their way back home when they learned the only job was as prostitutes. If they refused she would throw them out on the streets with nothing. It is well known that her and Colorado Charlie" Utter trapped many in prostitution this way. She was not a good person.

@@heavyhittersgaming3759 You would have been hard pressed to find many good people in Deadwood or any other town like it at the height of its infamy , good people didn't last long. However, there were degrees of bad depending on what made them that way.

@@heavyhittersgaming3759 Could you provide the source for that? It’s hard to get reliable sources on historical figures of the Old West as there is so much vested interest in always lionizing them, especially the famous gunfighters.

The West wasn't all gun fights, horse thieving, and desperados riding the lonesome trail hunting rogue Indian Chiefs and robbing Stagecoaches. That is a romantic and obtuse idea colored by Cinema and tall tales. There were plenty of decent, hard working folks living a quiet life in what we consider the Old West. Way more than there were lawless, reckless Billy The Kid types.

​@jjaarr3208 yeah thought so..

Can u prove it. And I’m related to Arnold Schwarzenegger ...🤨

I was born in Princeton, MO. 1957. Where is your hometown?

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Thank you for watching!

She may have exaggerated how hard her early life was.

@@joeblow7236 She was the greatest yarnspinner of her time.

Jane is a notorious liar/exaggerator.

Nice to see all the insecure & sexist "men" put their worthless 2 cent opinions here.

Yes. She had the Jack - that's more likely the truth

Debbie VanLeuven we learn something new everyday. I didn’t know that VD was referred to as calamity back in the old west. I guess I should have said referred to it as a calamity I guess it would have been. She still seemed like she was a pretty good person if this story is true.

A compatriot of Typhoid Mary perhaps. Makes me want to hear the "true" adventures of Calamity Jane. Might make for a funny porn movie.

Nah, there's not a doubt in my mind that Calamity Jane could totally ignite your bedsheets and make your ceiling fan sweat. Brassy broad could probably bite into a horseshoe and spit out nails you could set railroad ties with. There's also a sneaking suspicion I have that, while she may have had several periods of being a self-employed "Professional Lady," the truth could very well be that whatever fees she collected were some of the first and most reasonable health insurance plans -one low monthly payment can keep both legs and arms from "Experiencing a Sudden Calamitous Onset" a local affliction which included such symptoms as: having all the joints of your body bent in the opposite directions, concussion, confusion, and a marked interest in reassuring concerned parties that they "got confused and hurt themselves -oh, but thank goodness Calamity was there to help. It's... Terrifying, what may have happened to a silly, clumsy, easily crushed little creature like myself who talks too muh.. -OW! Sorry about that, Miss Jane, I accidentally cracked my rib cage against your elbow, there." Yeah, if that's not the historically-supported canon Calamity? Then I would suggest that you mind your own business and maybe just enjoy your "Not Haunted By The Seething Ghost Of Calamity Jane" life in whatever happy-go-lucky fantas... [ -OW! OW! Not so HARD, dangit... ] I'm just going to shut up now. I think I've contracted an acute form of Sudden Calamitous Onset in the region where I used to have floating ribs. Wait, when and why did I put a handful of pennies in my mouuut-... Oh.

@@G0thCrayon Hi, yes, uh..what the fuck are you on about?

She must have been! Thanks for watching!

Obviously he did have use for her before he got shot in the head for killing someone's brother. The way males use women it isn't a surprise that so many women have no use for males. However, she seems to have used a few.

Thanks! :D Happy New Year!

Hope you had good Christmas aswell with yours, and wish a happy and healthy New Year! Lots of success with your channel. You had 6 ads.

@@ELKE- Glad you liked the story, thanks for the support!! Happy New Year!

@@ForgottenLives Thank you! You are very welcome! Happy New Year!🎊

Thanks very much! Happy New Year!

Thank you!! Will look into her!

@@ForgottenLives Yeah, for sure! She's awesome!

Annie Oakley & Calamity Jane are my grandmother's personal heroines!

@@Ruby321123 Mine too. Belle Starr is another favorite of mine.

@@bettyjames4155 Yes!

I'm going to try to find her on here.

Thank you very much! Happy new year!

Thanks for the support! Happy new year :)

Thanks very much for the support!

@@ForgottenLives thanks for the good video

Thanks :D Happy new year!

Forgotten Lives thanks hope you and your loved ones had a awesome new year 😃🎉

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks for watching! Happy new year!

Thanks !!

Thanks!!

Great to hear that! Happy new year!

Thanks! That's a great help and support!

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@@cherylleanne9755 Good Evening Cheryl :-) 🍾🍺🍺🍾🍺🍺🍾🍺🍺 (It is morning here lol)

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@@cherylleanne9755 you too 👍😁👍

Cheers as usual Crime Reel! Happy new year!

Her true skill was spinning a yarn.

@J1LLTheR1pper Wild Bill Hickock never had a show.

@J1LLTheR1pper Yea I have lived my entire life in the area. Visited his grave. Wrote plenty of reports on the man. James Butler Hickock did NOT run a show. He DIED in the No. 10 salon holding a particular hand of cards called Dead Mans Hand. Those cards were aces and eights. Perhaps you should do some research before you set out to argue?

@J1LLTheR1pper Buffalo Bill Cody is the man you are thinking about that ran a show. You can get off your high horse now.

@J1LLTheR1pper Yet you still respond. Hilarious. You are correct in the fact that you are a waste of time and energy for the simple fact you wish to live in ignorance of a mans history. Believe in a tv show that was very very loosely based in the myths that surrounded these people. Enjoy your day.

Indeed and a hard one

Thanks for all the support!

Great to hear that!!

My Daughter is there right now… enjoying the History with her husband and 4 Children… on a Cross Country Trip!

I went on several trail rides, done 2 or 3 days before CJ day. Drinking and riding horses. Talk about a good time!

But did you see the final deadwood movie?2019 It was a shocker

But you were too lazy to Google it so you could make a decent post!

Don't blame her. Not much else she had going.

@@2degucitas You're right. She didn't have much going for her, women in general during that time period. That's something I didn't take into consideration.

Well. “facts” is a strong word. It’s the truth as she told. Whether or not she told the truth. we may never know.

@@majorgear1021 You have a great point. And she's no longer around we won't actually know if they're lies or not.

Happy New Year! Likewise!

Richard Putz I didn't know there was a non musical movie made about Calamity Jane starring Doris Day!

The only movie on this subject with Doris Day was called Calamity Jane in which there was a song called Deadwood Stage.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks! Happy New Year!

The story must have brought back memories!

Forgotten Lives absolutely did. Great video by the way

Lol Funny Nancy! Left reply for you at MM. Sleep well!💌 i go again🙋💕

@@ELKE- Hey EB🥀 I did too at MM. Thought you were sleeping already. Now 12:28 going to sleep....must arise early😵and you know how much I L❤VE to sleep. TTYL. Hope your day is nice.

@@nancyM1313 Later here! but we did our greetings around! Lol I did sleep a bit.. Okay, see you! Thank you. Wish great week!💜

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Thanks for watching and happy new year!

She was, but at least her time has been reported bless her. Many strong women lost but hey we are not related but will celebrate.

Eww. Take your crazy elsewhere. She didn’t ask for your prayers.

Happy New Year to you also!

🎆 *Happy New Year to you as well!* 💕

And a awesome new year to you 😀🍾🎉🎉✨

Happy new year!

@@ForgottenLives Thank you!!