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Calamity Jane (c. 1852–1903)| US heroine of Deadwood, South Dakota. She worked as a teamster, transporting supplies to the mining camps, adopted male dress and, as an excellent shot, promised ‘calamity’ to any aggressor. Many fictional accounts of the Wild West featured her exploits. |
| During a smallpox epidemic 1878, she assisted in caring for the victims who had been abandoned by local citizens. |
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