Calamity Jane

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Mark Yost, Live From Deadwood. After Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head, Calamity Jane grabbed a meat cleaver and cornered his killer. Or did she?  Wall Street Journal, Sept 26, 2014.
online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-life-and-legends-of-calamity-jane-by-richard-w-etulain-1411685574
(book review on Richard W Etulain, The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane. University of Oklahoma Press 2014)

Note:
(a) "On Aug 2, 1903, a day after she died in faraway Terry, SD, Calamity Jane's obituary appeared in the New York Times. The subhead described her as a 'Woman Who Became Famous as an Indian Fighter' and as someone who had 'Served with Gens. Custer and Miles.'""
(i) Deadwood, South Dakota
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood,_South_Dakota
(named after the dead trees found in its gulch; table: Founded 1876, Population (2010)  1,270)

is now a city within
Lawrence County, South Dakota
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_County,_South_Dakota
(section 3 Communities: the county has two areas of unorganized territory: North Lawrence and South Lawrence)
(ii) About five miles in air distance southwest of Deadwood, the community called Terry is inside South Lawrence.
(iii) Calamity Jane (1852-1903)
(iv) The noun subhead = subheading = subtitle

(b) "Her real name was, improbably, Martha Canary. She was a farm girl from Princeton, Mo, whose parents chased the Gold Rush to Utah in the 1860s."

Princeton, Missouri
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_Missouri

(c) "In her autobiography, she said that she became Calamity Jane when she saved 'Capt Egan' from an attack by Nez Perce Indians during an expedition to the Black Hills in 1875. In gratitude, Egan had supposedly declared: 'I name you Calamity Jane, the heroine of the plains.'"
(i) Nez Perce people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nez_Perce_people
(live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau); section 1 Name)
(ii) French English dictionary
* nez (noun masculine): "nose"
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/french-english/nez
* percer (v): "to pierce"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/percer

(d) "It is true that she was on the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition in 1876 * * * 'During this march,' she had claimed in her autobiography, 'I swam the Platte river at Fort Fetterman as I was the bearer of important dispatches.'"
(i) Platte River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platte_River
(draining Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming)
(ii) Fort Fetterman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Fetterman
(1867-1882; approximately 11 miles northwest of present-day Douglas, Wyoming; named in honor of Capt William J Fetterman, who was killed in a fight with Indians near Fort Phil Kearny in December 1866)