Bryan Ney

Martha Canary/Calamity Jane’s youth is sparsely detailed in her own autobiography, and little known from other sources. Biographer Duncan Aikman writes in "Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats" what he found by going to her hometown in Missouri some … Read More... about Calamity Jane comes to Montana

My novel, "Calamity Jane- How the West Began" gives an explanation for how Martha Canary got her nickname; that it came from a well-documented episode of her and her siblings being taken in by the Fergus family after being neglected by their parents. … Read More... about Theories as to the Origin of the nickname “Calamity”, and Other “Stretchers”

The actual history of the arrest and trial of Plummer and his gang is too complicated to present in my novel. First there was the trial and execution of Ives, then over days and weeks the pursuit of other gang members and their execution by … Read More... about The Unforgiven, and Some Thoughts on Symbolism