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Apr 20, 2020 Full Review Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine [Annie Oakley] is played by Barbara Stanwyck and is a much beautified Annie, with eyelashes so thick you would think they might interfere with ...
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- Annie Oakley Was Not Her Real name.
- Oakley Proved An Expert Shot at A Young Age.
- She Outgunned A Professional Sharpshooter—And Then Married him.
- A Steamboat Accident Led to Oakley’s Big Show Business break.
- Chief Sitting Bull Considered Oakley His Adopted Daughter.
- She Sued William Randolph Hearst For Libel and Forced Him to Pay $27,000.
- She Competed at Wimbledon.
- She Was Not An Advocate For Women’s Suffrage.
- Her Name Is Synonymous with Free Tickets.
The fifth of seven surviving children, Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses on August 13, 1860, in rural Darke County, Ohio. Although she became a Wild West folk hero, the sharpshooter spent her entire childhood in the Buckeye State. Called “Annie” by her sisters, she reportedly chose Oakley as her professional surname after the name of an Ohio town ne...
While her sisters played with dolls, Annie tagged along with her father as he hunted and trapped in the woods. From an early age, Annie showed an extraordinary talent for marksmanship. “I was eight years old when I made my first shot,” she later recalled, “and I still consider it one of the best shots I ever made.” Steadying her father’s old muzzle...
A Cincinnati hotelkeeper who knew of the country girl’s reputation arranged a shooting contest between 15-year-old Annie and a traveling professional sharpshooter named Frank Butler who regularly challenged local marksmen as he toured the country. Butler, who reportedly chuckled when he first saw his opponent, hit 24 out of 25 targets. The teenager...
William “Buffalo Bill” Codyrefused to hire Oakley for his Wild West show after their first encounter because he already had an expert marksman, world champion Captain Adam Bogardus, as part of his traveling troupe. However, in late 1884 a steamboat carrying the show’s performers sank to the bottom of the Mississippi River. The passengers made it of...
Eight years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Lakota Sioux leader who orchestrated the defeat of General George Custer’s troops attended one of Oakley’s performances in St. Paul, Minnesota, in March 1884. Mesmerized by her marksmanship, the Native American chief sent $65 to her hotel in order to get an autographed photograph. “I sent him ...
On August 11, 1903, two of Hearst’s Chicago newspapers reported that a destitute Oakley had been arrested for stealing a pair of men’s pants to pay for her cocaine addiction. In spite of the fact that Oakley hadn’t been in Chicago since the previous winter, newspapers across the country reprinted the story. The truth was that the woman who was arre...
Before Wimbledon became world-famous for its annual tennis tournament, the London suburb was better known in sporting circles for hosting England’s biggest shooting event of the summer. While appearing with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in London to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Oakley took part in the rifle competition on Wimbledon Co...
Throughout Oakley’s life, she campaigned for equal pay for equal work. Although vocal in battling discrimination in the economic arena and advocating the participation of women in the military, she did not speak out for the right of women to vote. She hedged that the concept was acceptable “if only the good women voted.”
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, ushers traditionally punched a hole or two in free tickets to the circus, theater or sporting events in order to differentiate them from those of paying customers when tabulating receipts. The pock-marked tickets resembled the playing cards that Oakley would shoot holes through during her performances, which led t...
Mar 3, 2024 · Uncovering the woman behind the legend. T wo years ago, for reasons lost to history, I was compared to Annie Oakley by one of my colleagues. Annie was a favorite historical figure of mine, but I ...
Annie Oakley: With Gail Davis, Brad Johnson, Jimmy Hawkins, Bob Woodward. A fictionalized account of the life of legendary Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
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- 1954-01-09
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Nov 3, 2020 · This was no ordinary 5-cent coin – a hole had been pierced through its centre by one of Annie Oakley’s bullets. I first learned about the celebrated sharpshooter Annie Oakley and the role she played in providing the West with an identity during a trip to the National Cowgirl Museum in Texas, a visit which left me eager to learn more.
Annie combined beauty with athletic skill and sharp shooting, and was an instant hit when the show aired in the mid-Fifties. She found herself in all kinds of situations, and wasn't fazed by wearing her holster and guns over a party dress! You can catch that scenario in episode #1.13, 'Hardrock Trail'. 10/10.
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February 24, 1957. ( 1957-02-24) Annie Oakley is an American Western television series that fictionalizes the life of the famous Annie Oakley. (Except for depicting the protagonist as a phenomenal sharpshooter of the period, the program entirely ignores the facts of the historical Oakley's life.) Featuring actress Gail Davis in the title role ...
