The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1886-02-04
CALAMITY ,sNE.
sketch OF the Rec klrss Life Of u MOTTO.
rioas frualc Bandit.


! II any Of the Eastern youtLs wb
nave SO eagerly poured over the exploit
OF Calamity Jane, as set forth in TN
o'ood-red columns of Beadle and Nun
roe, can spare the time to visit Landc
lhey can see their fascinating heroin,
IN the liesh. for Calamity Jane hersel
has settled in Lander. Many peopl,
liiik Calamity Jane Il heated myth o
tiie di,ordered brain of some pennv-,.
iiner, but she Is II reality, aud the pen
Oh IL hall-crazy Imagination is not nee.
essary TO enhance her actual deeds
some OF Calamity's earliest years were
spent IN this section, and she has been
ons talked of by the old timers.
Saitihliy came to Miners Delight in
isoS al The age of II years, an inmate
of the family of Major Gallagher an
oillcer who has done loyal Service in
me civil war rs member NJ "A Cali
lorna regiment. Mrs. Gallagher had
picked up the girl rs the family passed
through Fort Bridger. She never knew
VINO her parents were and had been /,
stray from her earliest infancy. She
was pretty and yivacious, and Mrs
Gallagher, moved by her forlorn state
'iioiSht TO give her "A home. But the
spirit OF original sin itself possessed
.he Sirl, and before tl.ey had been i'm
'ncir new nome six months the whole
camp rang with the depraved escapades
oi Jane, The only name she had ever
1noNn: ioung as she was she took to
aepravlty naturally. At last am out
,aSeous oiiense moved the good old
siis. raliagher to iniiict vigorous
.hfeshlng. Jennie raised u howl of
brutal treatment, and miners com |
hittee investigated and came to the
CONCLUSION that if the girl was threshed
every day it would improve matters
MIS-. uallagher now refused to have /
inything more to do with her. and the
miners raised money to send her to The
This was done. and .Iennie
'oon made II name for herself along
ne line of the Union Pacific. After
in the railroad slums for
1Verai years she went to the Black
HE and enjoys the distinction of
'eiiig me f"st woman who ever pene-
ra,ed that Reckless region. where gold
Ihu CRIME held such :. high carnival
n the meantime she had carned AMI
Won the we'll known name of Calamity
aiie. Singular as it MAY appear. She a
,ossessed delicate, girlish Srittjness. +,
'itf 1t she owned the heart of a /
gress. Reckless in disposition. pretty h
a looks and full Of animal spirits sho :
au lovers by the crowd. These were a
My valuable to her as a sonrce nf d
7'ehue. Heart and affection were to
er unknown terms, and when the rcye- u
ue iailed so did the lover. Not con,en, II
i'h y dlscarding her lovers, she gcner- a
ny managed to destroy them. Thi. d
as done by playing them one against y
io'iier. III Is even said that in one or v
'o cases, when other means failed. Il
'e made away with them with her
VA hand. When She reached the :,
ack hiIis, Gen. Crook was about
his campaign against the "i
puA. Cheyennes and Arrapahoes
li!aahiliy promptly put on the cavalry of
iii"rih and served with great ga llantrv ca
reckless courage she united "A vi
aaiy cooiness and II quick and ready -
i'd' suddenly her trooper life failed M
liiit rel her, and deserving. She iojned an
oi the most desperate gangs of ha
id agents IN the hills. Here She wa. -,
her element. Retaining the manly ~
'luIne, she rode with the band ON
d., ana soon welded no small an u"
'flty. In the summer of ls15 she ihe
the plan and personally supcrin. .
ded The execution of Il most daring
se robbery. The booty secured wa. !
&c, ana the gang VA, .hnrllv hunted
y scattered for safety. and Calamity.
ON panied by her then lover. Bll
eiis' ana man known ~ Red
!e i"r Miners Delight. Here they
'Ied considerable time, and could
g been safe bad not Calamity, in a
nken fit told the miners who sLr
ana what she had been doing since
ilad lei! the scenes If her earliest
loits. ihe rohbers had To nv onea
e, and when they started tllev took
then some fine horses that br-
,ed around the mines. The plun-
"a miners at once followed. aud the
,rfs we're oNertaken on Willow
y, 4 stream not many miles from
der. Calamity and her "p,l,,
we'd night, and after stubborn on
lter the miners were beaten otr
tir rohbers made good their e.rapc II
the stolen horses. That MINI to II
e was split in the rolhrr canlu that
inity mad long been growing tired autl
llvcns, and she now told him tI,,t foun
did not leave her aud Red" She iutel
Il MI him. Blivens left and rode for t
'nder, while Calamity and hcrncw NOR
started for the railroaI !, = hard
OF Calamity, Bilvcu, va danipad both
re he had been al day ia Lander aud
~, arrested "a, an ESCAPED convict poIa
the Territorial pcntcniiary. with aud
ard upon hi- head. IL vi. re-. prI,a
q to that institution. anI shortly ihln
dlrd there. Calamity aud Rod, on-.
Il the railroad. Rcd WA. tarr -hall
il oil by the dingcrnn. beauty
"turned to his oli home in Dlis
T, ne WAS captured ami !, now ..rc-
heavy sentence. NJ
amlty has since then led har usual - ir.
The familiar of tho frontier dry =.
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