This week I looked at the Annie Oakley web site. I find it very interesting that there are so many different stories that about her. I was intrigued when I found out that she was born here in Ohio. For the early twentieth Century, She and her husband traveled a lot in her early years. It is very interesting that she met with the queen of England on her trip to England. Many people today see Annie Oakley as a spokes woman for women’s rights. This may be how we look at history now but is this how Annie saw herself? Did Annie Oakley see herself as a women’s rights activist? Annie Oakley was a hero to many women of her time in the things that she did like learning to shoot a gun and even working. Annie and her husband Frank Butler switched roles after Frank found out that Annie draw a bigger and better crowd when she preformed her act.
Annie Oakley was a poor girl from Ohio that made a living shooting small game to help her family. After a while of shooting in competitions, she was band from them because she kept winning them and nobody was able to come even close to besting her. Her husband Frank Butler was not even able to beat her he missed the last shot and she made the shoot. Even in to her 60’s she was able to make people marvel at her shooting abilities. She was also known for her shows in the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West show. She traveled to Europe and met royalty on her way. Annie was also in a movie made by Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope.
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