January 20, 2006

Western Truth and Legend; A Powerful Woman; Claiming Disability; Beyond Human Worlds

Several months before the scheduled airing of Buffalo Girls by CBS in 1995, I received a call from the producer of a proposed documentary on Calamity Jane to be shown immediately before the movie. He wondered what locations might have Calamity Jane interest and what available memorabilia might help demonstrate the historical basis of their film. During the course of our conversation, I remarked that Larry McMurtry's Buffalo Girls was, of course, fiction, not history, but the producer insisted