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Annie Oakley (birth title Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee, 13 August 1860 – 3 November 1926) was a United States sharpshooter in the American West.

Biography
She was a girl of Quakers, Susan & Jacob Mozee (?-1866), world health organization were from either Pennsylvania. The fire burned down their tap house and so it moved to the rented domestic around Patterson Town, Darke County, Ohio. Her father fought inside the War of 1812 & died within 1866 from either pneumonia & overexposure in freezing atmospheric condition. Annie was a fifth of sevener babies. Her mother remarried, got an additional infant & was widowed another instance. When you took this period Annie was put in the care of the superintendent of the county unfortunate domestic, in which she learned to embroider & sew. She spent the bit of period within nigh servitude for a local personal in which she met by using mental & physical abuse. After she reunited by having her personal, her mother experienced married the third period.

Oakley began hunting at a age of nine to trend lines her sib & her widowed mother. She shortly became called the sharpshooter. When defeating the sideshow sharpshooter known as Frank E. Butler (1850-1926) aka Francis Butler, she married him withinside 1876 around Ohio, & became his help in his traveling indicate.

It joined a Buffalo Bill Wild West Show within 1885, and she wwhen advertised as "Little Miss Sure Shot", the nickname given to her by Sitting Bull. Oakley experienced such skillful aim that she knocked the ashes off a cigarette in the mouth of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Around 1901, she was badly injured around the railway crash, but recovered & resumed her career.

A musical Annie Get Your Gun is loosely based on a life of Oakley. From either 1954 to 1956, Gail Davis played her in the Annie Oakley television series.

Media
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Oakley, Annie - Dorchester Library Profile
Provides a chronological report of her personal life and career in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Annie Oakley - Cowgirls.com
Information on the life of Annie Oakley along with photos.


Arts: Movies: Titles: A: Annie Get Your Gun






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