annie oakley

     

During WWI this American showed off her talents in a play called "The Western Girl"

Trivia about annie oakley

  • Sitting Bull nicknamed her "Little Sure Shot"
  • She received her nickname "Little Sure Shot" from Sitting Bull
  • (Ding dong! But the trick's on Rootin' Tootin' Sofia of the Clue Crew.) I'm dressed up as this performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but, uh, Mom wouldn't buy me a rifle!
  • This markswoman was featured in the "Legends of the West" series from 1994
  • Around 1875, this woman beats her future husband, marksman Frank Butler, in a shooting match
  • Head to the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum to see this woman's pair of gold-plated six shooters
  • Gold-plated pistols used by this female sharpshooter are at L.A.'s Autry Museum of Western Heritage
  • This sharpshooter performed with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show & inspired a 1946 musical
  • Greenville, Ohio holds an annual celebration honoring this female sharpshooter
  • Reba McEntire hit her marks as this markswoman in the 1995 TV miniseries "Buffalo Girls"
  • Frank Butler must have loved her because he let her shoot cigarettes out of his lips
  • She was called "Little Missy" & "Little Sure Shot"
  • She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match
  • Born in a log cabin, she was right on target as a popular 19th century entertainer
  • "America's Sweetheart", "Little Sure Shot"
  • Takes first "Sure Shot" at life Aug. 13, 1860, should have been NRA poster girl, gets holstered Nov. 3, 1926
  • Born in Darke County in 1860, she developed her amazing proficiency with firearms at an early age
  • She joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show after meeting him at the Cotton Expo in New Orleans
  • She once shot a cigarette from the mouth of the German crown prince
  • Gail Davis did much of her own trick riding & sharpshooting on this 1953 TV series
  • Deputy sheriff Lofty Craig was this Western heroine's boyfriend
  • The Wild West's "Little Sure Shot"
  • She wasn't called "Little Sure Shot" for nothing; this sharpshooter was only 5 feet tall
  • Sharpshooter Frank Butler abandoned his career to manage this even sharper-shooting gal
  • A train wreck in 1901 left this markswoman partially paralyzed for a time
  • As one of Buffalo Bill's opening acts, she shot a cigarette out of the hand of Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • This sharpshooter is the subject of the musical "Annie Get Your Gun"
  • Known as "The Peerless Lady Wingshot", She was with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for 17 years
  • "Annie" is based on a comic strip; "Annie Get Your Gun" is based on this real-life girl who "shot" to fame in the 1800s