The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir

Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane

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After that campaign I returned to Fort Lander, Wyo. In that war Gens. Custer, Miles, Terry and Crook were all engaged. This campaign lasted until the fall of It was on Goose Creek, Wyo. Captain Egan was in command of the post. We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians and were out for several days and had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded when on returning to the post, we were ambushed about a mile and a half from our destination. When fired upon, Capt. I was riding in advance, and when hearing the shot, turned in my saddle and saw the captain reeling in his saddle as though about to fall.

I turned my horse and galloped back with all haste to his side and got there in time to catch him as he was falling. I lifted him onto my horse in front of me, and succeeded in getting him safely to the fort.

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We were afterward ordered to Fort Custer where Custer City now stands, where we arrived in the spring of We remained at Fort Custer all summer and were ordered to Fort Russell in the fall of where we arrived until the spring of Was then ordered to the Black Hills to protect miners as that country was controlled by the Sioux Indians. The government had to send soldiers to protect the lives of miners and settlers in that sector. Remained there until fall of and wintered at Fort Laramie. In the spring of we were ordered north with Gen. During this march I swan the Platte River at Ft.

Fetterman as I was the bearer of important dispatches. I had a ninety mile ride to make, being wet and cold. I contracted a severe illness and was sent back in Gen. Crook's ambulance to Fort Fetterman where I laid in the hospital for fourteen days. When able to ride I started for Ft. During the month of June, I acted as a pony express rider carrying the U.

Many riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points. It was considered the most dangerous route in the Black Hills but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as a good fellow and they knew I never missed my mark.

I remained around Deadwood that summer, visiting all the camps within an area of miles. My friend Wild Bill remained in Deadwood during the summer with the exception of occasional visits to the camps. On the second of August, while sitting at a gambling table in the Bella Union saloon in Deadwood, he was shot in the back of the head by the notorious Jack McCall, a desperado.

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Will Bill was not killed in the Bella Union. I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall. I at once started to look for the assassin and found him at Shurdy's butcher shop and grabbed a meat cleaver and made him throw up his hands, because through the excitement of hearing of Bill's death having left my weapons on the post of my bed.

He was then taken to a log cabin and locked up, well secured as every one thought. But he got away and was afterwards caught at Fagan's ranch on Horse Creek on the old Cheyenne road and was then taken to Yankton where he was tried, sentenced, and hanged. I remained around Deadwood, locating claims and going from camp to camp until the spring of when, one morning, I saddled my horse and rode to Crook City. I had gone about twelve miles from Deadwood at the south of Whitewood creek when I met the overland mail running from Cheyenne to Deadwood.

Upon looking closely I saw they were pursued by Indians. As the horses stopped, I rode alongside the coach and found the driver, John Slaughter, lieing face downwards in the boot of the stage, he having been shot by the Indians.

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When the stage got to the station, the Indians hid in the bushes. I hurriedly removed all the baggage from the coach except the mail.

I then took the driver's seat and, with all haste, drove to Deadwood carrying the six passengers and the dead driver. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again.

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