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- As a teenager, Oakley returned home (after working as a servant for an abusive family) and continued to hunt animals. She sold the meat to an Ohio grocery store, earning enough money to pay her mom’s $200 mortgage.
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Aug 13, 2018 · She sold the meat to an Ohio grocery store, earning enough money to pay her mom’s $200 mortgage. She later wrote: "Oh, how my heart leaped with joy as I handed the money to mother and told...
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Their roles are reversed. Annie does have the man's role, the same as she did when she was a kid, paying off the mortgage on her mom's house. That's what her father should have done.
May 19, 2014 · She earned so much money this way that she was able to pay off the mortgage on her mother’s house by the time she was 15. In 1875, Oakley entered a Thanksgiving shooting competition against the well-known sharpshooter , Frank E. Butler.
Aug 13, 2018 · She sold the meat to an Ohio grocery store, earning enough money to pay her mom’s $200 mortgage. She later wrote: "Oh, how my heart leaped with joy as I handed the money to mother and told her that I had saved enough to pay it off!"
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: Annie Oakley's] roles in the marriage were inverted. Annie was earning the bread. Frank was the secretary, managing, cleaning her guns, fixing up her schedule. Their roles are reversed. Annie does have the man's role, the same as she did when she was a kid, paying off the mortgage on her mom's house.
Signature. Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West . Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At age 15, she won a shooting contest against an experienced marksman ...
Feb 1, 2002 · When she was ten, after her father died, she was sent to work at a nearby infirmary to relieve some of the family expenses. When she returned home for her sister's wedding, she was able to pay off her mother's mortgage with money she earned from shooting matches.
