biography
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Oakley, Annie
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popular name of Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1860–1926)
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| biography:
| Rodeo star and sharp-shooter, born in Darke Co, Ohio, USA. She learned to shoot at an early age, and married Frank E Butler in 1876 after beating him in a shooting match. They formed a trick-shooting act, and from 1885 toured widely with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. A tiny woman just under five feet tall, from 30 paces she shot cigarettes from her husband's lips and the lips of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and through the pips of a playing card tossed in the air. ‘Annie Oakley’ became a synonym for a complimentary ticket, because of the hole traditionally punched in it. Her story was fictionalized in the Irving Berlin musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun (1946), starring Ethel Merman. |
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