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The "dead man" stretched out on a sofa in the lobby of the Hotel Carleton turns out to be neither dead nor a man. Instead, it is Martha Jane Conroy (Norma Crane), also known as the infamous Calamity Jane--flat broke, and drunk as a skunk. Paladin (Richard Boone) takes it upon himself to restore Jane's self-esteem, while simultaneously bursting the bubble of an impostor who is posing as the great "Calamity" in a seedy wild-west show.