Martha Jane Canary (1848-1903), known as Calamity Jane, was born in Princeton, Missouri. A hard-drinking woman who wore men's clothing, used bawdy language, chewed tobacco, and was handy with a gun, she traveled from Arizona through the Dakota territories during a rough life. At her death, the "White Devil of the Yellowstone" was remembered as a saint by the citizens of Deadwood, where she helped nurse the sick during a smallpox plague, and she was buried near Wild Bill Hickock at Deadwood, South Dakota. Buffalo Bill said her maiden name was Martha Canary, that she was born in Princeton, Missouri, in 1852, that after her mother died the family moved in 1862 to Virginia City, Nevada, and that an Indian uprising separated her from her father and brothers and left her on her own at age 10. He said she gained a local reputation for daring horsemanship and skill as a rifle shot, served as a scout under him before she was 20 after General Cook appointed her, and did good service on a number of occasions, going places old frontiersmen were unwilling to trust themselves. He said her nickname came in 1872 at Goose Creek Camp, South Dakota, when Captain Egan was surrounded and wounded during fighting with Indians, and she rode into the center of the fight, lifted him onto her saddle, and carried him out while the rest of the company was slaughtered. He also said that in 1876 she saved six stagecoach passengers traveling from Deadwood to Wild Birch in the Black Hills after the driver, Jack McCall, was wounded by an arrow and she took the reins and brought the stage safely to Wild Birch.