Portrait of Annie Oakley Posing with Hand on Her Hip

(Original Caption) She once shot a cigarette form the mouth of former Kaiser Wilhelm, (when he was Crown Prince), and received a medal from King Edward of England who called her the greatest rifle shot in the world, but Annie Oakley as a girl in Greenville, Ohio, where she was born in 1860, had to be good with the rifle in order to shoot game for her mother and herself. At sixteen, she married Frank Butler and with him as her manager, she joined "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show. Although she never had a written contract with that great showman and Scout, Annie Oakley traveled with "Buffalo Bill's entourage for more than seventeen years and to him she was just "Missie." She could drill a pack of cards with a bullet from any distance, Free passes to any show punched with holes the size of 34 caliber bullets have since time been called "Oakleys." Some of her best records for
(Original Caption) She once shot a cigarette form the mouth of former Kaiser Wilhelm, (when he was Crown Prince), and received a medal from King Edward of England who called her the greatest rifle shot in the world, but Annie Oakley as a girl in Greenville, Ohio, where she was born in 1860, had to be good with the rifle in order to shoot game for her mother and herself. At sixteen, she married Frank Butler and with him as her manager, she joined "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show. Although she never had a written contract with that great showman and Scout, Annie Oakley traveled with "Buffalo Bill's entourage for more than seventeen years and to him she was just "Missie." She could drill a pack of cards with a bullet from any distance, Free passes to any show punched with holes the size of 34 caliber bullets have since time been called "Oakleys." Some of her best records for
Portrait of Annie Oakley Posing with Hand on Her Hip
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