New Name
During the day, Martha Jane was busy creating her own brand new name. Her accounts of the early 1870s speak of a woman escaping gender standards and mastering all aspects of the rough and tumble western life.
New Name
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Earned
According to her, Martha Jane had earned her name in the noblest way possible. In 1872, while ambushing Native Americans in Goose Creek, Wyoming, the leader of her brigade, Captain Egan, had taken a bullet.
Earned
