She was the heroine of the Old West: a sharpshooter, a scout for General Custer, the bride of Wild Bill Hickok. Or was she? Perhaps she was no more than a character in a dime novel, the invention of a writer, who never in his life ventured west of Titusville, Pennsylvania. Everyone has heard of Calamity Jane, the legendary figure who started life as a pioneer girl named Martha Jane Cannary. Now Doris Faber sorts out fact from legend to tell the true story of a remarkable American woman.
