annie oakley was my stage name but i was christened phoebe ann moses. they thought phoebe was too fancy. as soon as i was big enough to lift my daddy's hunting rifle, he taught me how to shoot. but my daddy died when i was 6. just left my mama in an awful way. we were dirt poor. when i got a little bigger, i discovered a way to help my mama. i saw a squirrel nibbling a nut on the fence post outside our cabin and i decided to shoot it. i got my daddy's long barrel rifle from above the fireplace and filled it with enough gun powder to kill a buffalo. and that was no easy task because the barrel of the rifle was taller than me. eyeballing that squirrel i placed the long gun on the railing of the front porch and pulled the trigger. when all that smoke cleared, that squirrel shot cleanly through the head. i still think it's one of the best shots i ever made. i spent my days hunting to provide food for my family. my mother would often say to me, phoebe ann moses. stop shooting, you're supposed to be going to school to prepare to be a wife and a mother, not sh

we in an air, when opportunities for women were limited, annie oakley's amazing ability with a gun, proved that women, could do just as well, or perhaps better than men. we >> howdy. we history, only oakley was my stage name. but i was christened phoebe and meiosis ministers like to call me -- they thought phoebe was too fancy. as soon as i was big enough to lift my dad is hunting rifle, he taught me how to shoot. but my daddy died when i was six. i left my mama and an awful way, we were dirt poor. when i got a little bigger, i discovered a way to help my mom, i saw a squirrel nibbling on the fence post outside our cabin and i decided to shoot it. i got my dad is long by a rifle, from above the fireplace, and filled it with enough gunpowder to kill a buffalo. and that was no easy task, because the barrel of the rifle is taller than me. eyeballing that's grow a place the long gun on the railing of the front porch, and pulled the trigger. when all that smoke cleared, that squirrel -- shot cleanly through the head. i still think is one of the best, shots i have ever made. i spent my days hunt

displays of marksmanship were provided by cody baker and annie oakley, little sure shot. as time passed, he would update these pageants over and over. he included the spanish-american war, the boxer rebellion and the philippine insurrection. events such as the attack on the deadwood stage and the first scalp for custer remained always part of the show. as you know, cody took his wild west to london where he became an international sensation. he gave the europeans just as he had given his own countryman a glimpse of the vanishing frontier. he exploited the possibilities of the american west making them intelligenceable to millions who had no other knowledge of the frontier than what he presented. he became a good will ambassador. he won the hearts of the world as had no american since benjamin franklin. and he became like dr. franklin had been at the time of the american revolution, the symbol of what it was -- who are these new people? these americans. here he is. wow. after 30 years in which time cody made and lost several fortunes, the wild west show failed in 1913. he