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Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.
Author : Jason Porterfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823941025
Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.
Author : Jean Flynn
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
As a traveling performer with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West, Annie Oakley became a legend for her shooting skills and her role in creating the colorful myth of the American West. This book presents the exciting details of the female sharpshooter's life, and shows how the real Annie Oakley, while different from the image promoted in movies and books, was still an adventurous and interesting woman who broke barriers and created new opportunities for women all over the United States.
Author : Brenda Haugen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2006-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756518691
This book recounts the life of Annie Oakley, sharpshooter and entertainer, who demonstrated that a woman could participate in athletic endeavors and still be a lady.
Author : Julia Bricklin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0806158018
Today, most remember “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) as Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley’s conservative “prairie beauty” persona clashed with Smith’s tendency to wear flashy clothes and keep company with the cowboys and American Indians she performed with. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West showbiz life that Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star. Drawing on family records, press accounts, interviews, and numerous other sources, historian Julia Bricklin peels away the myths that enshroud Smith’s fifty-year career. Known as “The California Huntress” before she was ten years old, Smith was a professional sharpshooter by the time she reached her teens, shooting targets from the back of a galloping horse in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West. Not only did Cody offer $10,000 to anyone who could beat her, but he gave her top billing, setting the stage for her rivalry with Annie Oakley. Being the best female sharpshooter in the United States was not enough, however, to differentiate Lillian Smith from Oakley and a growing number of ladylike cowgirls. So Smith reinvented herself as “Princess Wenona,” a Sioux with a violent and romantic past. Performing with Cody and other showmen such as Pawnee Bill and the Miller brothers, Smith led a tumultuous private life, eventually taking up the shield of a forged Indian persona. The morals of the time encouraged public criticism of Smith’s lack of Victorian femininity, and the press’s tendency to play up her rivalry with Oakley eventually overshadowed Smith’s own legacy. In the end, as author Julia Bricklin shows, Smith cared more about living her life on her own terms than about her public image. Unlike her competitors who shot to make a living, Lillian Smith lived to shoot.
Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806135069
A biography of America's greatest female sharpshooter delves beneath her popular image to reveal a conservative but competitive woman who wanted to succeed.
Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822529408
Highlights the life of Annie Moses, better known as Annie Oakley, the United States' greatest female sharpshooter.
Author : Elaine Landau
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766022058
She could shoot a dime out of her partner's hand. She could drill a target behind her while looking at it in a mirror. Called "Little Sure Shot" by the famous American Indian chief Sitting Bull, sharpshooter and entertainer Annie Oakley amazed millions of people with her skill and daring deeds with a gun. In Annie Oakley: Wild West Sharpshooter, author Elaine Landau tells about the life of this woman, who overcame a difficult childhood to go on to fame and fortune as one of America's most popular Wild West entertainers. Color photographs, a glossary, and Internet addresses help bring Annie Oakley's story to life. Book jacket.
Author : Eric Blair
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1479518468
A retelling of the tall tale about Annie Oakley.
Author : Charles Spain Verral
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258067625
Author : Katherine Rose
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627122869
Annie Oakley, was an American sharpshooter who became an international star performing for heads of state and royalty. This book is an introduction to the life Annie Oakley whose perfection in her sport inspired Broadway plays, musicals, and songs. Her story is considered a folktale, or legend, which is a story passed on by word-of-mouth through generations, organically changing each time it is told. This exiting volume contains original artwork, historical context of the story, recounts the folktale from diverse cultures, and defines words unique to her legend.