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What historians call a "Frontierswoman", she's best portrayed in the late HBO's Deadwood TV series, played by actress Robin Weigert.
Most of the other uses of Jane's references are very exaggerated and excentric whichever media is concerned.
Hollywood's previous musical pseudo adaptation of her life and exploits (1953) or her tough/boyish depiction in the "Lucky Luke" franco-belgian western spoof comic books are too far from, we can only guess the complexity and nuances of her character in such a context as was hers, the 1860s american wild frontier, where most other girls were to be wives or whores, and the standards of mediamaking of those days might not have allowed her not to be a funny character.
Emigrating West in 1865, she goes from hustling men for to learning to hunt and scout with them. She becomes a fine shot and starts scouting for the US Army.
Upon saving her captain's life, she gets nicknamed "Calamity Jane".
She was friends (in love) with Wild Bill Hicock, helped people escape bouts with natives, became a rancher, twice, had a daughter, worked on and on for a big well doing local Madame, worked a stint for Buffalo Bill's touring circus of the West, while drinking heavily all along which led to her death in a hut by a railway where she was eventually found.
Tragic character, essential figure of the Wild West era, who deserves her part in this little gallery.
There are others but ladies first so I tried to represent her during her transition between that dark eyed pretty kid and the stocky firm stone face woman she eventually became.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane
