“THE FAR-FAR LEFT” by Joan Swirsky, ©2020 (Aug. 20, 2020) — Calamity Jane was a frontier heroine in the mid-19th century who during an uprising in 1872 saved a Captain Egan from certain death, whereupon he told her: “I name you Calamity Jane, the heroine of the plains.” This is in stark contrast to Kalamity […]