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Although Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane spent only a few weeks in Deadwood at the same time, their fame and fate have become intertwined and their relationship legendary. James D. McLaird examines the contemporary accounts that turned these two Wild West wanderers into dime-novel and motion-picture stars. Contemporary novelists and journalists created an astonishingly strong legacy for both Calamity Jane and Wild Bill, accounting for much of their notoriety. Gun fights, scouting missions, and daring escapes from enemies filled stories about the dashing pair; even their day-to-day existence seems to have been fraught with danger and excitement, teetering on the brink between lawful and unlawful. McLaird traces the role that writers and the city of Deadwood itself played in the creation of the legacies of the famous couple.
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Collaboration & Conservation: Archivists Tackle Tri-Folded Documents and Iron Gall Ink (The Back Table)
This blog post will detail the experience of two graduate students in the NYU Archives and Public History program who worked on pre-processing the Sylvester Manor Papers in the Conservation Laboratory in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department .The Kansas Heritage Server would like to thank John Richard for contributing the following article about James Butler Hickok.
Chronology on Life of James Butler HICKOK, Wild Bill Hickok, Old West Kansas
Now heading the household, Jane took her siblings back to Wyoming , arriving at Fort Bridger on May 1, 1868. Taking whatever job that was available in order to provide for the family, she worked as a cook, a nurse, a dance-hall girl, a dishwasher, a waitress, an ox-team driver, and according to some tales, a prostitute. In 1870, she joined General George Armstrong Custer as a scout at Fort Russell, Wyoming , donning the uniform of a soldier.
Calamity Jane - Rowdy Woman of the West