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   Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio.

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   Apr 3, 2014 · Annie Oakley was a renowned markswoman and star who worked for years with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She was known for her shooting tricks, such as shooting a cigarette out of the mouth of Native American leader Sitting Bull, and her activism for women's rights and charity work. Learn more about her life, career, legacy and media depictions.

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   Mar 29, 2024 · Annie Oakley (born Aug. 13, 1860, Darke county, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 3, 1926, Greenville, Ohio) was an American markswoman who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, where she was often called “Little Sure Shot.”

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6. www.womenshistory.org › biographies › annie-oakleyAnnie Oakley | National Women's History Museum

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   Annie Oakley is a famous markswoman known for her sharpshooting. During her lifetime she traveled with her husband across the country and abroad showing off her skills with a rifle. She became a star in a male-dominated sport, and legendary throughout the world.

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   Learn how Annie Oakley used her marksmanship skills to escape a poor childhood in Ohio and become the first female superstar in the Wild West show business. Explore her life, career, and legacy as a shooter, actress, and activist.

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   Who was Annie Oakley?

   • Both lucky and extremely talented, Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood in Ohio and become the first female superstar in what had been a male-dominated profession. Annie Oakley infront of her tent in Europe. c1889. Library of Congress Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in rural Darke County, Ohio.

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   Did Annie Oakley kill a wolf?

   • But her fame also has led to conflicting accounts of her life. Legend has it that Annie Oakley was such a skilled sharpshooter that she singlehandedly foiled train robberies, shot bears and panthers, and killed a wolf that already had her in its grip—or so claimed one 1887 novel based on her life titled The Rifle Queen.

   The true story of Annie Oakley, legendary sharpshooter

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   How did Annie Oakley feed her family?

   • Sue Macy writes in National Geographic ’s Bull’s-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley that Annie helped feed the family by making traps to catch game before taking up her father’s rifle. Oakley shoots a rifle over her shoulder using a hand mirror in a photo taken circa 1885. The trick was one of her favorites and it frequently impressed crowds.

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   Who was Annie Oakley & Phoebe Ann Mosey?

   • Annie Oakley was an American markswoman who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, where she was often called “Little Sure Shot.” Phoebe Ann Mosey (or Moses, per some sources) early developed an amazing proficiency with firearms.

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   May 31, 2022 · Learn about the life and achievements of Annie Oakley, one of the most skilled gunslingers of the 19th century. Discover how she became a star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and how myths and facts shaped her legacy.

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    From her humble roots as Phoebe Ann Moses to taking center stage as Annie Oakley—champion shooter and star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West—this remarkable woman is remembered as a western folk hero, American legend, and icon.