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THBCalamity Jane Cabinet Photograph by H.R. Locke
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LiveNov 17, 2017 - Nov 18, 2017
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- Lot Description
Cabinet card showing Calamity Jane armed with a repeating rifle, ammunition belt, and revolver, with imprint of Locke and Peterson, Deadwood, SD, titled in the negative "Calamity Jane, Gen Crook's Scout. Copyrighted by H.R. Locke, 1895." Consignor relates that this card was previously housed in machine for displaying cabinet cards, which is why it was trimmed along top edge and now measures 5.875 in. long.
Perhaps no other figure is more illustrative of the wild days in Deadwood in the 1870s than Martha Jane "Calamity" Cannary (1852-1903). Her history is shrouded in uncertainty and myth. As early as 1864 her family was living in Virginia City, Nevada, and by the late 1860s she was apparently a consort of various soldiers at Forts Jim Bridger and Steel in Montana Territory. She had a propensity for dressing in men's clothes, and may have been with Crook at the Battle of Slim Buttes in 1876, dressed as such. She apparently accompanied Wild Bill Hickok, Colorado Charlie Utter and Bloody Dick Seymour when they arrived in Deadwood in June or July of 1876, and was there when Bill was murdered. By all accounts, she was a profane, alcoholic harlot, but with many likeable qualities. While never married to Hickok, she was buried next to him in Deadwood.
Consignor relates that this card was previously housed in machine for displaying cabinet cards, which is why it was trimmed along top edge and now measures 5.875 in. long. Some surface scratching to cabinet card.Condition
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