P a g e 8 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r HARLOWTON MAN RECALLS CALAMITY JANE IN CASTLE At the time of Calamity Jane’s residence at Castle, ghost mining town in Meagher county, Thomas H. Hanzlik of Harlowton operated a barber shop there. He remembers that she did own men’s buckskin clothes, but she only wore them on special occasions. Most always she wore women’s clothes. According to Hanzlik, Calamity Jane had an original method of soliciting financial aid for the town’s needy. She would borrow a dollar from each of a number of people and present the collection to the Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz fellow in hard luck. She would always promise to pay the dollars back but never did. Nor was she ever turned down by anyone she asked for a dollar for a worthy cause. At Castle she operated a restaurant, remaining there about a year. She was not the rough western character some historians would have her to be, Hanzlik says. -The Fallon County Times (Baker, MT), December 15, 1938, Accessed via www.montananewspapers.org My/Donor Information: SUBSCRIBE TO THE GHOST TOWNS AND HISTORY OF MONTANA NEWSLETTER! Renewal? Y/N Send a Gift to: NAME____________________________________ NAME___________________________________ ADDRESS__________________________________ ADDRESS_________________________________ CITY______________________________________ CITY_____________________________________ STATE__________________ZIP________________STATE_________________ ZIP________________ Yearly subscriptions are $19.95 (published monthly). Please make checks payable to Ghost Towns & History of MT, LLC and send with this clipping to P.O. Box 126, Warm Springs, MT 59756 Calamity Jane in fringed buckskin circa 1895, unidentified photographer, Courtesy of www.mtmemory.org
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