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quote:Originally posted by sreigle
Don't forget in Deadwood to go up the hill to the cemetery where Wild Bill is buried. And Calamity Jane is buried next to him, by her request. I don't remember whether there is a plaque up there with the story or I read it somewhere else but it's interesting. Apparently she had this big crush on him and it was one-sided.
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Calamity Jane was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery (South Dakota), next to Wild Bill Hickok. Four of the men who planned her funeral (Albert Malter, Frank Ankeney, Jim Carson, and Anson Higby) later stated that since Wild Bill Hickok had “absolutely no use” for Jane while he was alive, they decided to play a posthumous joke on Wild Bill Hickok by giving Calamity an eternal resting place by his side