Annie Oakley, American Folk Hero #2
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Annie Oakley, American Folk Hero #2
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Sharpshooter Annie Oakley, holding rifle, with many medals pinned across the top of her dress photographed by Richard Kyle Fox, 1899. Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 - November 3, 1926) born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and folk hero. She was able to help the family by hunting game for a grocery store, earning enough to pay off the mortgage for her mother's home. After beating him in a 1875 Thanksgiving shooting competition, the following year, Moses married Frank E. Butler, a top shooter and vaudeville performer. The two embarked on a union that would last more than half a century. She met Native American leader Sitting Bull in 1884, and he was so impressed with her manner and abilities that bestowed upon her the nickname "Little Sure Shot." Oakley and Butler joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885. The couple toured with the show for more than a decade and a half, with Oakley receiving the spotlight and top billing while Butler worked as her manager, assisting Oakley with her stunning displays of marksmanship. She could shoot off the end of a cigarette held in her husband's lips, hit the thin edge of a playing card from 30 paces and shoot distant targets while looking into a mirror. She would also shoot holes through cards thrown into the air before they landed. She continued to set records into her sixties, and she also engaged in philanthropy for women's rights and other causes. Her health declined and she died of pernicious anemia in 1926, at the age of 66. Butler was so grieved by her death, according to B. Haugen, that he stopped eating and died 18 days later.
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