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Conne) of Hays City and Carl Cosgrove of Abilene, who happaned to pass while the marriage vows were being taken. The quaint certificate, also attested by handwriting experts who inspected tho Rev. Warren's church records, is a display in Mi's. Foote's private museum in Billings. Calamity left that to her daughter, too, with the admonition: "Don't ever let anyone tell you you was a wood's colt." Little Janie was born September 25, 1873, but Calamity's overweening love for her husband was already getting her into trouble.

"I gave your father a divorce to marry Agnes Lake," a passage in her journal says. "I was trying to make amends for the jealous times and my spells of meanness." Soon after her daughter's birth, Jane gave the infant to James O'Neil, a mariner who was taking his wife on a trip through the West. He promised to bring the little girl up as his own and never tell her who her real parents were. He also promised to send a letter once a year to let the mother know how her child was faring, and this was a vow he kept religiously. Almost at once Jane started writing in her book.

The entries were in the form of letters to her daughter, but she knew little foster parents had renamed her Jean would never read them until the author was dead. A early entry was about Wild Bill's return to the West, leaving his new wife behind. "If she had loved him she would have come out here with him, but she didn't and I was glad to have him again even if he was married and she so far away. I always excused our sin by knowing he was mine long before he was hers. A man can love two women at one time.

He loved her and still he loved me. No one ever knew how much we were in love. I forgot everything when I was near him." Posing as Wild Bill's partner, the Jack of Diamonds, Calamity Jane on one occasion offered to replace a stagecoach driver who was killed on the way from Abilene to Deadwood Gulch, South Dakota, even though she knew that desperadoes still hoped to get the valuable cargo. Telling Janie about it, she wrote in her journal: "The outlaws were back of me. It was getting dark and I knew something had to be done, so I jumped off the driver's seat on to the nearest horse, then on my saddle horse, which was tied to the side, and joined up in the dark with the outlaws.

Your father was bringing up the rear and I couldn't see in the darkness, but after they got the coach stopped and found no passengers hut heaps of gold, they got careless. "Your father and I got the whole- bunch. There were eight of them and of course they had to be shot for they wouldn't give up. Your father counted three with their right arms shot through. He said 'That's your work.

Jane. You never aim to kill. 1 The other five he shot to kill. He never seemed to mind killing, but I do." It was in a saloon at Deadwood some 22 THE AMERICAN WEEKLY June 1958 time later, on the afternoon of August 2, 1876, that Wild Bill, who always sat at a poker table with his back to the wall, was jokingly deprived of his usual seat by a friend and died a short time later with a bullet through the back of his skull. Some authorities say thai Calamity Jane was in the mob that cornered the assassin, Jack McCall, but she doesn't confirm it in any of her jottings.

At any rate, after that Jane didn't care much what happened. "All I want people to do," she wrote, "is to let me alone so 1 can go to in my own way." years her prized possession was the horse, Satan, Bill had given her, which always knelt for her to dismount. When Satan died, the only remaining link to Bill was the daughter she hadn't seen since birth. In 1883 she won $20,000 in a poker game, went east, got a glimpse of her child, left $10,000 with O'Ncil for her education and returned broke. She floated from city to city, working as stagedriver, nurse, drinking, carousing, gambling, shooting, building up a dubious reputation, until Buffalo Bill Cody offered to take her east with his show.

She jumped at the chance. In Richmond, Virginia. Jim O'Neil took Janie to see the show. It was a great moment for Calamity. That night, on a page blotted with what might only be mildew, she wrote, "You do not know that the woman you watched standing and shooting on a bareback horse was your mother.

I rode as close to you as I dared." But there was even a greater thrill in store. The Buffalo Bill show was going to Europe and O'Neil, now the captain of a Cunard liner, offered to take Calamity across the Atlantic on his ship, to bring Janie along and let both of them sit at his table. Probably only a mother could appreciate how Calamity felt on that voyage, chatting as a stranger with her own daughter, hanging on her every word, watching her every move, on guard every moment lest she betray herself. I wasn't until she was home in the U. S.

again that she trusted herself to write in her ghost letters: "I know now I was right. It has been worth every moment of the loneliness, Janie, every pang of heartache. You have grown to be a wonderful girl and you will he a lovely woman." Twenty-seven years to the day after Wild Bill was shot, Calamity Jane died of pneumonia in a village some seven miles outside Deadwood. The ghost letters, the marriage certificate and other mementos were given to her daughter, Mrs. Jean Hickok McCormick of Buffalo, Wyoming, who grew to be very proud of the past before her death a few years ago.

There was only one last thing Jane wanted and it was be buried next to James Butler Hickok in Mount Moriah Cemetery at Deadwood. They didn't have many years together, hut it will be a long time now. Next Week: Another True Tale of the Old West. BOXER DISCOVERS usr "The bumps and bruises after fight hurt far less when I rub oa 'Vaseline' Petroleum Jelly." Good for cuts, scrapes, bums, chapping and baby needs- Your First Aid Kit in a Jar I If cancer is detected in its early, stage, the chances for cure are very much better. Play it safe and smart.

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