Her name was Irene Paull but Woody Guthrie knew her as Calamity Jane. Named for the Old West frontierswoman, Duluth’s Calamity Jane used a pen instead of a gun to defend the rights of Minnesota’s lumbermen. And, as Britt Aamodt uncovers, she was also the subject of Guthrie’s song “Calamity Jane.”
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