Annie Oakley (Legends of the Wild West)

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One time, the wife put Annie out in the freezing cold without shoes, as a punishment because she had fallen asleep over some darning. Even in her autobiography, she never revealed the couple's real names. According to biographer Glenda Riley, "the wolves" could have been the Studabaker family, [14] but the U.

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Census suggests they were the Abram Boose family of neighboring Preble County. According to biographer Shirl Kasper, it was only at this point that Annie met and lived with the Edingtons, returning to her mother's home around the age of Annie began trapping before the age of seven, and shooting and hunting by age eight, to support her siblings and her widowed mother.

She sold the hunted game to locals in Greenville , such as shopkeepers Charles and G. Anthony Katzenberger, who shipped it to hotels in Cincinnati and other cities. Her skill paid off the mortgage on her mother's farm when Annie was Annie soon became well known throughout the region. Traveling show marksman and former dog trainer Frank E. Another account says that Butler hit on his last shot, but the bird fell dead about two feet beyond the boundary line.

They did not have children.

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According to a modern-day account in The Cincinnati Enquirer , it is possible that the shooting match may have taken place in and not Biographer Shirl Kasper states the shooting match took place in the spring of near Greenville, possibly in North Star as mentioned by Butler during interviews in and Other sources seem to coincide with the North Fairmount location near Cincinnati if the event occurred in Stein until March 19, Ridenour in It opened around after the building was previously used as a pork packaging facility.

Jack Frost didn't obtain management of the hotel until Regardless of the actual date of the shooting match, Oakley and Butler were married a year afterward. A possible reason for the contradictory dates is that Butler's divorce from his first wife, Henrietta Saunders, was not yet final in An U.

Federal Census record shows Saunders as married. The later marriage date would have better supported her fictional age. Annie and Frank Butler lived in Cincinnati for a time. Oakley, the stage name she adopted when she and Frank began performing together, [5] [30] [31] is believed to have been taken from the city's neighborhood of Oakley , where they resided. Some people believe she took on the name because that was the name of the man who had paid her train fare when she was a child. They joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West in At five feet tall, Oakley was given the nickname of "Watanya Cicilla" by fellow performer Sitting Bull , rendered "Little Sure Shot" in the public advertisements.

During her first engagement with the Buffalo Bill show, Oakley experienced a tense professional rivalry with rifle sharpshooter Lillian Smith. Smith was eleven years younger than Oakley, age 15 at the time she joined the show in , which may have been a primary reason for Oakley to alter her actual age in later years due to Smith's press coverage becoming as favorable as hers. She earned more than any other performer in the show, except for "Buffalo Bill" Cody himself. She also performed in many shows on the side for extra income.

Oakley supposedly shot the ashes off a cigarette held by the newly crowned German Kaiser Wilhelm II at his request. Oakley promoted the service of women in combat operations for the United States armed forces. She wrote a letter to President William McKinley on April 5, , "offering the government the services of a company of 50 'lady sharpshooters' who would provide their own arms and ammunition should the U.

The Spanish—American War did occur, but Oakley's offer was not accepted. The same year that McKinley was fatally shot by an assassin, , Oakley was also badly injured in a train accident, but recovered after temporary paralysis and five spinal operations.

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She left the Buffalo Bill show and in began a less taxing acting career in a stage play written especially for her, The Western Girl. Oakley played the role of Nancy Berry who used a pistol, a rifle and rope to outsmart a group of outlaws. Throughout her career, it is believed that Oakley taught more than 15, women how to use a gun. Oakley believed strongly that it was crucial for women to learn how to use a gun, as not only a form of physical and mental exercise, but also to defend themselves. Buffalo Bill was friends with Thomas Edison , and Edison built the world's largest electrical power plant at the time for the Wild West Show.

Biographers, such as Shirl Kasper, repeat Oakley's own story about her very first shot at the age of eight. Oakley never failed to delight her audiences, and her feats of marksmanship were truly incredible.

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At 30 paces she could split a playing card held edge-on, she hit dimes tossed into the air, she shot cigarettes from her husband's lips, and, a playing card being thrown into the air, she riddled it before it touched the ground. Oakley playfully skipped on stage, lifted her rifle, and aimed the barrel at a burning candle. In one shot, she snuffed out the flame with a whizzing bullet. Sitting Bull watched her knock corks off of bottles and slice through a cigar Butler held in his teeth.

In , sensational cocaine prohibition stories were selling well. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst published a false story that Oakley had been arrested for stealing to support a cocaine habit. The woman actually arrested was a burlesque performer who told Chicago police that her name was Annie Oakley. Most of the newspapers that printed the story had relied on the Hearst article, and they immediately retracted it with apologies upon learning of the libelous error.

The investigator found nothing. Oakley spent much of the next six years winning all but one of her 55 libel lawsuits against newspapers.

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She collected less in judgments than the total of her legal expenses. In , the Butlers built a brick ranch-style house in Cambridge, Maryland.

In , they moved to North Carolina and returned to public life. She continued to set records into her sixties, and also engaged in extensive philanthropy for women's rights and other causes, including the support of young women she knew. She embarked on a comeback and intended to star in a feature-length silent movie. In late , the couple were in a car accident that forced her to wear a steel brace on her right leg. She eventually performed again after more than a year of recovery, and she set records in Her health declined in and she died of pernicious anemia in Greenville, Ohio at the age of 66 on November 3, Butler was so grieved by her death, according to B.

Haugen, that he stopped eating and died 18 days later in Michigan, and his body was buried next to Oakley's ashes. One rumor claims that Oakley's ashes were placed in one of her prized trophies and laid next to Butler's body in his coffin prior to burial. After her death, her incomplete autobiography was given to stage comedian Fred Stone , [55] and it was discovered that her entire fortune had been spent on her family and her charities.

A vast collection of Oakley's personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio. There are a number of variations given for Oakley's family name, Mosey. Many biographers and other references give the name as "Moses". Census shows the family name as "Mauzy", this is considered an error introduced by the census taker.

Census [15] [16] and "Mosey" is engraved on her father's headstone and appears in his military record; "Mosey" is the official spelling by the Annie Oakley Foundation, maintained by her living relatives. According to Kasper, Oakley insisted that her family name be spelled "Mozee", leading to arguments with her brother John. Kasper speculates that Oakley may have considered "Mozee" to be a more phonetic spelling.

There is also popular speculation that young Oakley had been teased about her name by other children. Prior to their double wedding in March , both Oakley's brother John and one of her sisters, Hulda, changed their surnames to "Moses". During her lifetime, the theatre business began referring to complimentary tickets as "Annie Oakleys". Such tickets traditionally have holes punched into them to prevent them from being resold , reminiscent of the playing cards Oakley shot through during her sharpshooting act.

Oakley's worldwide stardom as a sharpshooter enabled her to earn more money than most of the other performers in the Buffalo Bill show. She and Butler together often donated to charitable organizations for orphans. Oakley urged that women serve in war, though President McKinley rejected her offer of woman sharpshooters for service in the Spanish—American War.

Oakley pressed for women to be independent and educated. Through this image, she provided substantial evidence that women are as capable as men when offered the opportunity to prove themselves. In , they moved to Pinehurst, North Carolina. That same year, Buffalo Bill Cody died. Annie Oakley wrote a touching eulogy for Cody, and the passing of a golden era.

The United States was pulled into World War I in , and Oakley offered to raise a regiment of woman volunteers to fight in the war. She had made the same offer during the Spanish-American War; neither time was it accepted. She also volunteered to teach marksmanship to the troops.

Oakley began making plans for a comeback in Attracting large crowds in Massachusetts, New York, and major cities, she had plans to star in a motion picture. Unfortunately, at the end of the year, she and Butler were severely injured in an automobile accident. It took Oakley more than a year to recover from her injuries. By , she was performing again, but her recovery did not last long.

By , she was frail and in poor health. She and Butler moved to her hometown in Ohio to be near her family. They attended shooting matches in the local area, and Oakley began to write her memoirs, which were published in newspapers across the country. In , after fifty happy years of marriage, the Butlers died. Both died of natural causes after a long and adventuresome life. Throughout her career, Oakley maintained her dignity and propriety while quietly proving that she was superior to most men on the shooting range.

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