Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin.
Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or bullwhacker.
Just as likely to wear a dress as she was buckskins, she was impossible to ignore no matter what she wore, particularly after she'd had a few drinks And she shamelessly parlayed into a legend the aura of fame that Edward L.
Wheeler.
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