Born Phoebe Ann Moses in Darke County, Ohio, on August 13, 1860, Annie Oakley was not exactly a product of the Wild West. Bettmann / Corbis “Famous Woman Crack Shot. . . Steals to Secure Cocaine.” It ...
“My mother … was perfectly horrified,” Annie Oakley once said, “when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with ...
Before she wowed royalty and headlined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Annie Oakley was a sharp-eyed girl from Greenville, Ohio. We explore her early life, visit her grave alongside Frank Butler, and ...