Martha Jane Canary, to give Calamity Jane her proper name, was a hard-drinking, cross-dressing, sharp-shooting frontier scout who cleverly created and manipulated her own legend.
Unlike Calamity Jane, though, Annie Oakley, the Quaker, retained her feminine style of dress with a calf-length skirt, long sleeves and leggings, making it her trademark. While Calamity Jane and ...