Infamous Deadwood: Calamity Jane Jane emerged from the fight untouched so the captain named her “Calamity Jane.” Or did he? Some say Jane made the whole thing up because she was looking for attention from the town's legendary men—especially Wild Bill Hickok who she claimed to love.
Calamity Jane (born May 1, 1852?, near Princeton, Mo.?, U.S.—died Aug. 1, 1903, Terry, near Deadwood, S.D.) was a legendary American frontierswoman whose name was often linked with that of Wild Bill Hickok.
Once arriving in Deadwood, Utter started up an express delivery service to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He and Wild Bill Hickok became close friends and when Hickok was killed while playing poker, Utter is the one who claimed the body and held a public funeral for the gunfighter.
Calamity Jane was a legendary character during the Wild West era in America. She became well known for her masculine stature and dress which led her to be an early example of gender fluidity. After her parents died, Jane had to provide for her siblings at the age of 12.
It's widely reported that Hickok, who was married, had little interest in Jane and that's why the townsfolk buried her next to him so she could spend eternity with him and they could play the ultimate joke on Hickok.
Nevertheless, while not directly depicting homosexuality, Calamity Jane contains multiple instances of cross-dressing, and a potential development of lesbian relationship between Katie Brown (Allyn McLerie) and Calamity Jane (Doris Day).
Contrary to what you may have seen on the HBO series, it was very unlikely that Bullock and Hickok met, let alone became allies. Although the iconic “good guys” did not share time in Deadwood together, both can still be found in the same history books and museums.
The troupe's show Scouts of the Plains included Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, and Cody's old friend “Wild Bill” Hickok. Wild Bill and Texas Jack eventually left the show, but Cody continued staging a variety of plays until 1882, the year Buffalo Bill's Wild West was conceived.
Buffalo Bill, who rode for the Pony Express, fought in the American Civil War, and served as a scout for the Army, also created a Wild West show that toured the United States and Europe. Lakota Sioux chief Sitting Bull was part of the cast for four months in 1885, and since then, they had created a strange friendship.
Not noticing him, Wild Bill said to Massie, “The old duffer – he broke me on the hand,” the last words he was ever to speak. There was a loud bang, and McCall shouted, “Damn you, take that!” Hickok's head jerked forward, was motionless for a moment, and then he fell backwards to the floor.
Shortly before his death, Hickok wrote a letter to his new wife, which read in part, "Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife—Agnes—and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore."
Wild Bill is a 1995 American acid Western film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok. The film was written and directed by Walter Hill, and based on the 1978 stage play Fathers and Sons by Thomas Babe and the 1986 novel Deadwood by Pete Dexter.
Cody paid the Native men and women in his show the same as he did the white cowboys, treated them fairly, kept families together, and was regarded as a warm friend by a great many of the Lakota that traveled with him. Buffalo Bill Cody with Red Cloud and American Horse.
The quote by Sitting Bull, "The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it," highlights the profound observation made by the renowned Native American leader.
Sitting Bull was the political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General George Armstrong Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn. Years later he joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show.
Gary Michael Heidnik kidnapped, raped, and tortured six women starting in 1986, keeping them prisoner in the basement of his Philadelphia home. Gary Heidnik was every bit as twisted as the infamous movie character he inspired: Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs.
In the last years of his life, Wild Bill Hickok had eye problems. His eyesight was fading, he was sensitive to light, and there was irritation and itching. It's not clear just exactly what the problem was. One theory—Hickok had “ophthalmia,” a general term referring to an inflammation of the eye.
Back in the days when the West was young and wild, 'Wild Bill' fought and loved and adventured with such famous frontiersmen as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp." In reality, Earp was a virtually unknown assistant marshal in Dodge City when Wild Bill Hickok was murdered in 1876.
The film is a deliberate mix of fact and fiction. Hill based his script on Pete Dexter's book Deadwood and Thomas Babe's play Fathers and Sons. In recreating Bill's past, the film relies on real accounts of the gunfighter's life, showing us how he earned his reputation.
Famous lawman, James “Wild Bill” Hickok, was shot while gambling at the Saloon #10 in Deadwood, South Dakota. His shooter, Jack McCall, who was able to get away with the shooting by claiming that Hickok had murdered his brother.
Doris co-starred with Howard Keel (for the one and only time), and they were great together. The big song was "Secret Love", an Academy Award and Grammy Winner. So, three years later, WB produced their own version of a Western Musical, but the leads were Calamity and Wild Bill Hickock.
In 1941, Jean Hickok McCormick appeared in Billings, Montana. She said she was the daughter of Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, and was born in a cabin near Livingston, Montana in 1873.
The extensive collection continues to grow even today as the museum identifies items that help to tell a more complete story of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and his burial at Lookout Mountain.
