4337 x 2180 px | 36,7 x 18,5 cm | 14,5 x 7,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
20 août 2011
Lieu:
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
Informations supplémentaires:
James Butler Hickok was born 27 May 1852 at Troy Grove, Illinois. He was the 4th of six children born to William Alonzo and Polly (Butler) Hickok. He was an Indian Scout in 1858, stage-coach driver 1859, guide and scout for the Union Army 1861, scout for George Armstrong Custer 1867-68, Marshall of Hays City, Kansas, 1869 and Marshall of Abilene, Texas, in 1871. Hickok married Mrs Agnes Lake Thatcher, 5 March 1876, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, then headed for the Black Hills, during the goldrush. On 2 August 1876 he was murdered by Jack McCall, during a poker game in Deadwood. On 3 August 1879 Lewis Shoenfield and Charley Utter, an old friend, moved his remains to Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery. Hickok was being called 'Bill' by the mid-1850s and possibly picked up the 'Wild Bill' nickname for his daring ways of living and fighting during the Civil War period. Martha Jane Cannary was born at Princeton, Missouri, 14 May 1852. At age 12, her parents died and she was raised as an orphan in Wyoming. As a woman she arrived in Deadwood in July 1876, in the same wagon-train as Wild Bill Hickok. She hauled goods and machinery to the outlying mining camps. She also worked as a dance-hall girl. While having a reputation for kindness and generosity, she was loud and obnoxious, cross-dressed and drank heavily. She may have acquired the nickname 'Calamity Jane' because men were said to be 'courting calamity' if they offended her. There are few hard facts about her life, embellished in magazines and in the dime-novel stories of 'Deadwood Dick'. In 1885 Calamity Jane married Texan Clinton Burke, in Boulder, Montana. In 1887 she had a daughter, Jane, handed-over to foster parents. In 1893 she was dressing in buckskins and reciting her adventures in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She died in Terry, S.Dakota, in July 1903 after drinking heavily. She was buried in Moriah Cemetery next to Wild Bill, whom she claimed to have married in 1873, 3 years before first meeting him.
