When we left Texas we went to Boulder, Colo., where we
kept a hotel until 1893, after which we travelled through
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, then back
to Montana, then to Dakota, arriving in Deadwood October
9th, 1895, after an absence of seventeen years.

My arrival in Deadwood after an absence of so many years
created quite an excitement among my many friends of the
past, to such an extent that a vast number of the citizens who
had come to Deadwood during my absence who had heard so
much of Calamity Jane and her many adventures in former
years were anxious to see me. Among the many whom I met
were several gentlemen from eastern cities who advised me to
allow myself to be placed before the public in such a manner as
to give the people of the eastern cities an opportunity of seeing
the Woman Scout who was made so famous through her daring
career in the West and Black Hill countries.

An agent of Kohl & Middleton, the celebrated Museum
men came to Deadwood, through the solicitation of the
gentleman who I had met there and arrangements were made
to place me before the public in this manner. My first
engagement began at the Palace Museum, Minneapolis,
January 20th, 1896, under Kohl and Middleton's management.

Hoping that this little history of my life may interest all
readers, I remain as in the older days,