Buffalo Girls

TV Mini Series
1995
3h

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Sam Elliott, Melanie Griffith, Peter Coyote, Anjelica Huston, Jack Palance, and Reba McEntire in Buffalo Girls (1995)

Follows the life of the heroine of the Wild West: Calamity Jane and her best friend Dora Du Fran who runs a brothel.Follows the life of the heroine of the Wild West: Calamity Jane and her best friend Dora Du Fran who runs a brothel.Follows the life of the heroine of the Wild West: Calamity Jane and her best friend Dora Du Fran who runs a brothel.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 15 nominations total

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Anjelica Huston

Calamity Jane

Melanie Griffith

Dora DuFran

Gabriel Byrne

Teddy Blue

Peter Coyote

Buffalo Bill Cody

Tracey Walter

Jim Ragg

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

No Ears

Jack Palance

Bartle Bone

Charlayne Woodard

Doosie

Andrew Bicknell

Captain James O'Neill

Paul Lazar

Doc Rames

Russell Means

Sitting Bull

Jane E. Goold

Skeedle

Liev Schreiber

Ogden

John Diehl

General Custer

Sam Elliott

Wild Bill Hickok

Reba McEntire

Annie Oakley

Boots Southerland

Sergeant

Hannah Taylor Gordon

Janey

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Artistic license anomalies: Deadwood is in the Black Hills, a long way from the Rocky (or any) Mountains, and Dora Dufran died thirty years after Calamity Jane did.

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[in a letter to her daughter]
Calamity Jane: In them days, Janey, there was only two ways for a woman to survive out west - wifin' and whorin'. Since I wasn't cut out for either one, I had to find my own way of surviving. So I lived like a man and sometimes passed myself off as one. It got kind of sticky at times, but it gave me a kind of freedom that few women ever knew.

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Featured in The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1995)

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The late 1800s, the myth of the Wild West was fading.

Not sure how it was presented originally but now, in 2021, I was able to watch it on a single DVD, two 90-minute episodes. In 4:3 picture format. The first one focused on the 1870s with real characters like Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody. The second one contains a lot on the tour Buffalo Bill's Wild West show took through England a few years after.

Through it all the most featured character is Calamity Jane, depicted very well by Anjelica Huston. In the England segment Reba McEntire is very effective as Annie Oakley. All in all a very well presented set of stories about the old west.

My wife watched the first episode with me, I watched both. On DVD from my public library.