probably know rex meyers and susan richards, and i have to thank them although they're not here because they spruced me to jeremy about ten years ago, and jeremy introduced me to frank kristen son, so big thanks to frank and jeremy for having me here. it's really a pleasure. i'm not going to talk that much, to be honest, about an any oakley's take on things. i'm going to actually try to talk a little bit more about how the people who surrounded her may have understood or read her performance within the cultural context of their time. and in so doing i want to try to provide some context for some additional context for this sort of apparent fascination with girlishness that seemed to have been part of female performance in the wild west arena. so in some ways with oakley there is kind of this proliferation of images of her. we do have some writings from her. she gave quite a few newspaper interviews. but the actual image of her in some ways has kind of floated free from the historical oakley to represent a wide variety of things. so in children's books she's often upheld as a kind of model of a talented girl who pursued her dreams. in the film with barbara stan wick