August 1901 finds an old woman, lonesome and tired, on a train heading back West. This woman fought the Indians alongside Custer, witnessed the birth of Deadwood, and was close friends with Buffalo Bill. She was the terror of the plains, the outrage of the saloons, the very oddest of all her kind. But nobody ever knew who she really was. Her name was Martha Canary; her name is Calamity Jane.