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Annie Oakley was the stage name of Phoebe Ann Moses, a sharpshooter whose skill at shooting led her to star in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and made her a national celebrity. She won numerous medals for her marksmanship, performed for royalty, and remains a legendary figure of the American West. Annie, who had first shot a gun at a very young age ended up supporting the family by hunting. At age 15 she sold game to locals in Greenville, Ohio and to hotels and restaurants in the area, and built a reputation as an excellent shot. She claimed to have so been successful that she paid the mortgage on her family’s farm. As a young woman, she met Frank Butler while he performed his traveling marksman show in Cincinnati, Ohio. Part of Frank’s act was accepting challenges from local marksmen to matches, with bets being placed on both sides. A local hotel owner arranged a shooting match between Frank and Annie on Thanksgiving Day. Frank was surprised to learn his opponent was a five-foot-tall, 15-year-old girl— who beat him after he missed on his 25th shot. They began a courtship and eventually married. The two sharp shooter stars joined up with Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show in 1885. Annie is associated with the 'Wild West' to this day, although in reality she came from a farming family. Frank became her manager and they travelled throughout America and Europe for 17 years with the Wild West Show, of which Annie quickly became the star. She also befriended Sitting Bull, who symbolically adopted her and named her 'Little Sure Shot'. She performed in front of Queen Victoria on a trip to Europe and King Umberto I of Italy. She then enjoyed a comfortable retirement with Butler in Maryland and North Carolina, hunting and giving shooting lessons to other women and performing at charity events. During World War I, Annie also offered to raise a regiment of crack female sharpshooters, but the government ignored her, so Oakley instead raised money for the Red Cross by giving shooting demonstrations at army camps around the country. Annie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Frank Butler, to whom she had been married for 50 years, died 18 days later. #wcw #herstory #timeless

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