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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Museums in Uinta County, Wyoming, People from Uinta County, Wyoming, Mountain View, Wyoming, Evanston, Wyoming, Lonetree, Wyoming, Carter, Wyoming, Lyman, Wyoming, Robertson, Wyoming, Fort Bridger, Wyoming, Calamity Jane, Dana Perino, Moondog, Brady Poppinga, Ron Micheli, Piedmont, Wyoming, Wyoming Highway 89, Robert J. Matthews, Wyoming State Insane Asylum, National Register of Historic Places listings in Uinta County, Wyoming, Gordon L. Park, Mountain View High School, Medicine Butte, Humpy Peak, Almy, Wyoming, KADQ-FM, Kirby Heyborne, Uinta County Courthouse, Union Pacific Railroad Complex, KZNS-FM, Wyoming Highway 150, A. V. Quinn House, KNYN, Piedmont Charcoal Kilns, Bear River City, Wyoming, Bridger Antelope Trap, Downtown Evanston Historic District, Evanston Main Post Office, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, KEVA, KBMG, Uinta County School District Number 4, Uinta County School District Number 1, Kelly Poppinga, Triangulation Point Draw Site District, ERT Bridge over Black's Fork, Bear River State Park, Uinta County School District Number 6, Brigham Young Oil Well, Bear River, Wyoming. Excerpt: Martha Jane Cannary Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), was a frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native American Indians. She is said to have been a woman who also exhibited kindness and compassion, especially to the sick and needy. This contrast helped to make her a famous and infamous frontier figure. Marker east of Princeton indicating the most widely believed location of her birth. The site is now occupied by a Premium Standard Farms hog farmCalamity Jane was born May 1, 1852, as Martha Jane Cannary in Princeton, Missouri, within Mercer County. Her parents, Robert W. and C...