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Burk, Martha Jane (Canary) (Calamity Jane)

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Burk, Martha Jane (Canary) (Calamity Jane) (1852-1903)

US frontier figure, an expert markswoman and rider who dressed as a man. Allegedly a pony-express rider and then a scout for General George Custer in Wyoming in the 1870s, she was companion to ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok and heroine during the smallpox epidemic of US Forest Service and the Job Corps Conservation Center in Kentucky.



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