Montana has had its share of jerks over the years - enough, anyway, to devote a 1 1/2-hour seminar on the more famous among them.

Take Calamity Jane, for instance. Idol of frontier mythology, right?Not necessarily, say seminar organizers, who have titled Jane's segment "Calamity Jane - Sleaze of the Frontier."

The seminar Friday afternoon in Helena was part of two-day conference sponsored by the Montana Historial Society.

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Others being discussed include W.A. Clark, one of the notorious "copper kings" who dominated and corrupted Montana politics near the turn of the century.

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