•Accomplishments: Could work and socialize with hard and tough frontiersmen – from digging for gold, drinking in bars, cussing and dressing like a man – setting herself apart from other women from the ...

COURTING CALAMITY: Sometime around July 12, 1876, the famed lawman and gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok rode into the mining boomtown of Deadwood, S.D., in the Black Hills. Along for the ride, which one ...

"Legend" is a word tossed around too easily and misused too often. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a legend is "an unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one ...

RAPID CITY - She wasn’t Doris Day singing atop the Deadwood stagecoach, but The Journey Museum & Learning Center plans to celebrate her birthday anyway. One of today’s foremost authorities on Calamity ...

Calamity Jane has seen many incarnations both on stage and screen, and a new revival headed up by Carrie Hope Fletcher is now heading out on a UK touring production. Nick Smurthwaite takes us through ...

When I was 7 years old, I fell in love with "Calamity Jane." Never mind that Calamity Jane was really the lovely blonde singer/actress Doris Day. There she was on the big screen dancing, prancing, ...

Her exploits became the stuff of legend, glamorizing life in the Old West. But Martha Jane Canary’s real life story bears little resemblance to the fictional heroine. Calamity Jane—born Martha Jane ...

With Calamity Jane, writer/director Rémi Chayé explored the origin story of the legendary American frontierswoman of the same name, digging into her childhood and the ways in which she defied the ...

“Calamity Jane,” Rémi Chayé’s critically acclaimed animated feature vying for an Oscar nomination, is set to roll out on The Animation Showcase, a streaming service dedicated to the industry. The hand ...

Legendary actor and singer Doris Day died on Monday at the age of 97, prompting overwhelming tributes to the Calamity Jane star. A top star in the 1950s and 1960s, Day is regarded as one of the most ...