Calamity Jane: The Shocking Truth Hidden in Her Own Words

🌟 Calamity Jane EXPOSED: The SHOCKING Truth About America's Wild West Legend 🌟

She claimed to be Wild Bill Hickok's lover, an official Army scout, and a hardened frontier adventurer. But when you examine her own words against historical records... the truth will blow your mind.

What you'll discover: ✅ The REAL reason she invented her romance with Wild Bill Hickok ✅ Military records that PROVE she never served as an official scout

✅ Census documents and newspaper clippings that expose her biggest lies ✅ The mysterious daughter claim that changed everything

Join me as I dig through primary sources, census records, and historical documents to reveal what Calamity Jane REALLY didn't want you to know. This isn't just another Old West story—it's a complete myth-busting investigation that will change how you see American frontier history forever.

👻 If you love debunking Wild West legends like our Jesse James DNA video and Billy the Kid exposés, this one's going to be your new favorite.

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SOURCES CITED:
1860 U.S. Census - Mercer County, Missouri (confirms Martha Canary was born circa 1856, not 1852)
James D. McLaird - "Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2005) - definitive scholarly biography
Black Hills Pioneer newspaper - July 15, 1876 edition (headline announcing "Calamity Jane has arrived!")
Military muster rolls from the 1870s - no record of Martha Canary as official scout
Jenney Expedition journals (1875) - contemporary accounts describing her as camp follower, not scout
Marriage certificate - Bingham County, Idaho Territory, May 30, 1888 (Martha Canary to William Steers)
Wild Bill Hickok's letters to Agnes Lake - written in 1876 before his death
Jean Hickok McCormick's 1941 CBS radio appearance - "We the People" program, Mother's Day broadcast
U.S. Department of Public Welfare records - September 6, 1941 (old age assistance granted to Jean Hickok Burkhardt McCormick)
Fort Collins Pioneer Museum correspondence - 1951 letter from Jean McCormick requesting return of artifacts
Jessie Elizabeth's death certificate (1980) - correctly lists mother's maiden name as Canary
Contemporary Deadwood newspaper accounts - reports of Martha's drunk and disorderly arrests
1878 smallpox epidemic documentation - accounts from Deadwood residents and Dr. Babcock
Encyclopedia Britannica - biographical entry on Calamity Jane (marriage to Clinton Burke in 1891)
Martha Jane Canary's autobiography - "Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, By Herself" (1896)
Mount Moriah Cemetery records - Deadwood, South Dakota (burial records and funeral accounts)
Jack McCall trial records (1877) - legal documentation of Wild Bill Hickok's murderer
Pan-American Exposition records (1901) - Buffalo, New York employment and termination
Contemporary accounts from Colorado Charlie Utter - Wild Bill Hickok's friend, regarding Bill's opinion of Martha

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