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By Elizabeth Lane Do you love stories and films about real Western characters? I do. One of my favorites is Calamity Jane, whose outrageous lifestyle and genuine courage made her a frontier legend. The record of Calamity Jane's life is a mixture of fact and fiction. Much of that fiction was invented by Calamity herself.

Chicken Update! 20-Aug-08 Who’s ready for a chicken update? I bet Gaile is The first eggs have landed! From the young girls, that is….Slow Tilda to be precise. It seems she is not so slow after all.

Yesterday, while I was battling a major (2 day) migraine, things were happening here in the blogosphere to create a few Whoo Hoo’s!! Whoo hoo #1: Guess what? My blog posts were featured on Needlework News Craftgossip! (Thanks Denise!) I have Craftgossip on my blog reader and always look at the features.

Today in Montana History August 01, 2008 By: Randy in Billings Category: History August 1, 1867 The first issue of Montana’s first daily newspaper, the Helena Daily Herald, is published. August 1, 1868 Utilizing newly enacted homestead laws, David Carpenter files for the first homestead entry in Montana Territory at the Helena office.

The “Wild West” was the name given to the era in the American West when it seemed like law & order did not exist at all. It was a period in American history when the crime rate was shooting off the roof and legendary outlaws were roaming the streets.

A Good Crop of Top Pop Cowboys Posted in July 29th, 2008 by Bucko in CowboyLands Lists, Film Reviews, The Good the Bad the Fugly, Wild Western Web National Day of the Cowboy brought out all the panting western fetishists who love their cowpokes dearly, as well as the more serious side of cowboying, embodied by the rodeo riders and horsemen and horsewomen of the good old days–the 1980s, that is.

It seems that Bart and Miss Jane have been scuffling again - rumor has it they were recently spotted on a shopping trip. Miss Jane needed a new wardrobe to promote her new film but was reduced to tantrums when none of the dresses she could find suited her taste.

Mount Roosevelt - a small tower at the top of a very big hill. Have you ever gone to a place and thought "Gee, am I going the right way"? or "Hey, would anyone really mean to put this here"? Yeah - that is what happened. Let me explain. The Big Texan and I saw this picture.

when you have these two? …

"The Deadwood Stage" sung by Doris Day from the Film Calamity Jane (1953) No doubt about it... the young Doris, was a real cracker!