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Calamity Jane

1852 - 1903

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Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Calamity Jane has received more than 6,979,731 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Calamity Jane is the 97th most popular explorer (down from 74th in 2019), the 1,270th most popular biography from United States (down from 948th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Explorer.

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  • 7.0M

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  • 61.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Calamity Jane ranks 97 out of 498. Before her are Charles Marie de La Condamine, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Robert FitzRoy, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Carsten Niebuhr, and Martín Alonso Pinzón. After her are Ferdinand Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Bartholomew Columbus, Enrique of Malacca, and Juan de la Cosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Calamity Jane ranks 25. Before her are Alice Liddell, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, H. H. Asquith, Tewfik Pasha, Terauchi Masatake, and Paul Bourget. After her are Julius Richard Petri, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Hipólito Yrigoyen, Christian Krohg, Victor Adler, and Pietro Gasparri. Among people deceased in 1903, Calamity Jane ranks 16. Before her are Josiah Willard Gibbs, Otto Weininger, Hugo Wolf, Gotse Delchev, Gemma Galgani, and Vasily Dokuchaev. After her are Draga Mašin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Richard Jordan Gatling, Camillo Sitte, and Marcel Renault.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Calamity Jane ranks 1,270 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott Glenn (1939), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Kirstie Alley (1951), Dennis Rader (1945), and David Morse (1953). After her are Dorothy Malone (1924), Jack Elam (1920), George Akerlof (1940), Francis Gary Powers (1929), Thelonious Monk (1917), and Paul Ryan (1970).

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Among EXPLORERS In United States

Among explorers born in United States, Calamity Jane ranks 4. Before her are Richard E. Byrd (1888), Davy Crockett (1786), and Hugh Glass (1783). After her are Michael Rockefeller (1938), Sacagawea (1780), Frederick Cook (1865), Don Walsh (1931), Simon Fraser (1776), Jimmie Angel (1899), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), and George W. De Long (1844).

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