Goofs

After leaving the ball at the fort, we cut to a shot of Calamity's bare back as she is undressing. Once she gets the dress off she is shown wearing undergarments that clearly cover most of her back.

When Calamity rides into the Indian camp to rescue Dan, she fires seven shots from her six-shooter in such rapid succession she would have had no time to reload.

As Wild Bill and Lieutenant Danny ride up to Calamity's cabin, Katie is outside watering plants with a ladle. As they draw near, she turns and places the ladle into the water. In the next shot, she is again holding the ladle and again turns and places it into the water.

A tablecloth changes from red to blue.

At the beginning of the movie during the stagecoach scene, tire tracks are visible behind the coach.

The movie ends with Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane getting married. But they never married. In fact, they were never even romantically involved with each other (Bill did marry an Agnes Thatcher, while Jane married a Clinton Burke years after Bill's murder in 1876). This myth was probably created by Jane herself for the benefit of notoriety in an 1896 biography, but there are also many other contemporary sources as well. She even took this myth building one step further when she died in 1903. She requested that she be buried next to Hickock and that is just where she was interred: right next to Hickock in Mount Moriah in Deadwood, South Dakota (this site is easily accessible to the public). Yet, many who knew both said that Hickock had "absolutely no use" for Jane when he was still alive.

Jane tells Katie that Deadwood is in the Dakota Territory. This is wrong. Deadwood was an illegal town in lands that not only lay outside of the jurisdiction and administration of the United States, but was in fact, owned by the Lakota (Sioux) Nation. It was built in land, whose ownership was recognized by the United States in the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868. This land was called The Great Sioux Reservation. But whereas reservations were/are overseen by the United States Government, this was more like an independent and self-sufficient nation. The Lakota were free to run their lives, their world, as they saw fit, just as any independent nation did. The establishment of Deadwood, as a result of Custer's discovery of gold in the Black Hills, represented an invasion of Lakota lands. This invasion would eventually lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876 and the defeat of Custer at Little Bighorn. But the war would end in 1877 and the Lakota ended up losing the Black Hills and most of their reservation. Then, and only then, did Deadwood legally and practically, become part of the Dakota Territory. The illegality of this action (the war and seizure of Lakota lands) was borne out by a 1980 ruling by the US Supreme Court, and the United States government has since offered compensation to the Lakota for their loss. But the Lakota Nation has refused payment, instead insisting upon the return of their stolen lands (the Black Hills are considered to be very sacred to both the Lakota and Cheyenne Nations). This demand has been refused by the US (no surprise considering how much gold is STILL coming out of the Black Hills).

The city of Deadwood in South Dakota is more than 900 miles from Chicago and yet various characters have no difficulty in traveling between the two cities from time to time. There were no cars or planes at the time and on horseback or coach would have taken at least a month.

The person who wrote this must have missed the part where Calamity was on the train and also the comment on the way back that 'The last 90 miles is by stage'. So it would have taken maybe a week for the round trip.

When the Indians attack the coach, Calamity is seen firing over the leather suitcase. There is a dark spot on the side of the case just below her chin. A second later an arrow hits the spot, apparently following a wire that was edited out.

In the close-up shot of Calamity suspended by the rope from the saloon ceiling, it is obvious that the rope is holding steady quite some way off the vertical. A wire is visible suspended to the seat of her trousers.

The arrow which lodges in Adelaid Adams' trunk atop the stagecoach casts two shadows, revealing studio lighting.

When Calamity shoots at Katie at the ball in the fort, the bullet sprays punch all over Katie, but the punch bowl and glass remain unbroken (Katie can be seen to drop an unbroken glass)

When Francis Fryer is really getting into his number ("I've Got A Hive Full of Honey"), he drops his handkerchief while backing up to the trombonist. A quick cut and the chiffon hankie is back in his hand. He didn't stop to pick it up off the floor.

At the end of the movie as Hickock is driving the stagecoach out of town his right foot is on the brake.

When Jane is singing Secret Love, she is holding a daffodil. Deadwood was a muddy, dirty, crime filled, lawless, and illegal town in the mid 1870s. It was legally not even in the United States. It was in Lakota (Sioux) lands and NOT the Dakota Territory. The ownership of the Black Hills by the Lakota was recognized by the United States in the Treaty Of Fort Laramie of 1868. Therefore, it is inconceivable that someone, anyone, would bring in, plant, and grow daffodil bulbs under such circumstances.

At the start of the movie, Jane comes into Deadwood riding shotgun on a stage. One the items that the stage brings into Deadwood are packaged cigarettes, which are then sold by the barkeep in the saloon. But as Wild Bill Hickock (who is an integral part of this movie) was murdered (by Jack McCall at the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood) in 1876, and the cigarette rolling machine was invented in 1880, any cigarettes these men would smoke would have to be hand rolled out of loose tobacco by the smoker himself.

When Kate shoots the glass out of Jane's hand, she does so with a swing out cylinder revolver. The first swing out cylinder revolver was the 1889 Colt. As Wild Bill Hickock was murdered (by Jack McCall at the No. 10 Saloon in Deadwood) in 1876, this revolver (or type of revolver) would not be available for at least another 13 years.

The woman who plays Frances Fryer's date for the Ft. Scully ball is also seen in the chorus line for the Adelaid Adams finale in Chicago and then again with the group of ladies catching the wedding bouquets at the end of the movie.