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One of the world's strangest stories. the truth about Annie ("Get Your Gun") Oakley, who never missed a shot and had the crowned heads of Europe worshipping at her feet..... an amazing girl
NE grey Novem
ber
Кнічер day Wilhelm #1. Em peror of Germany, btend resplendent in his uniform a few paces away from his retinue of staff officers inside a high-walled garden. Slowly he Bl F cigarette in a stubby holder and then stood quite still with his hands behind his back.
Twenty-five yards away
to his right a slip of a girl
LITTLE SURE SHOT
By C. D. T. Baker-Carr
TBUDD Today her name is eight miles from Cincinnati.
el barrels, the a well-balanced weapon, the stell of burnt powder.
was aligning the sights of revered by all who love the. her rille. Nobody eveu bine of dared to breathe. Then a "feel" rifle shot shattered the awed silence, and the cigar. otte was halved a shaggy stub in the holder and the lighted and spinning away into the distance. The Kai- ser smiled and pocketed his ornate holder, to become treasured memento,
Annie Oakley was born Anne Moses on August 13. 1860, in a tiny Farmhouse in Darke County, Ohio, 1 When she WILS four her Tather dies from exposure
By the time she WAS 15 ith Annie had shut off the
farm- mortgage on their stend.
in ashtition she hud bought herself a new rifle and a new shotgun. Already her marksmunship was citing comment.
ma December bizzard. An- ON
A Challenge
A little more than 25 nie's earliest days were a girl dattened a complete years later, in 1917, the girl hard, the family were poor, whu pulled that trigger sat frugal, atrail-laced. down and wrote a letter to Wilhelm If saying how sorry
Early Days
الات
She
20
Was
gaw one.
show, the main
draw und the
At fi all.
most convincing
then
Annie's IKW He followed a defilte pattern
"T
CE → day shows, living in Leuts
among Hel Indians. Mexicans und long, Lastiky combays. Now she found time
up on her educa tion The Bible, especially the New Testament became her favourite rending matter.
to fit
A few months later that old warrior
Chlef brave,
Sitting Bull, joined Buffalo Bill's out- In a silence punctuated by a series of unintelligible grunts he watched Aurie gallop across the arena, Snatch a revolver from the ground and hit mch of thute largets swinging o end of a rope held by another
her
arrived with all
Jubilee guests--Including royalty from Denmark, Belgium, Saxony, Greece, Austria, Germany and Iussia-and Prince of Wales was among his new-found friends from the Wild West.
once
more
the
But the gun trunk was closed and Annie hud taken
up cm- broidery, 11 lopked as though her trigger happy days WTO ever. Then, in 1916, Frank took charge of the skect range at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst wille Annle gave exhibitions and shooting lessons,
In her old age her mi svom-
ext to become deadlier still. As in joke she would dribble u goli ball nerosa green into the hole by firing a small-bore pistol at itt
Having written her challeng- ing note to the Kaiser when America joined the war Annle Oakley, Frank Butler and their dog Dave raised thousands of dollars for the Red Crees.
Last Days
THEN in November 1922 fato truck again. A car she was travelling in overturned into a ditch. Hip and ohklo were frac- tured and Annie was back in
a wheel-chair; then it was erutches and finally a walking
re- steel brace stick. mained,
It i
But the
In April 1926 they wint home Darke County. Annie WI: bedridden. Old friends called and letters poured in by every post, She was not forgotten.
Na rare visit to a Cincinnati
catch shooting-stall this undersized to row of fast moving metal ducks, The manager knew a good that Together when he the age of six
they went up to the Bevis listed where a professional marksman, she was that she had been brought in her first kill,
Butler, was staying. Frank E. 80 accurate and could she bence of quut she had
Butler's practice have another shot, just une snared with bent wire. challenge anyone to outshoot
Indeed, Prince Edward rode in From then more"
the "Deadwood Stage" with on she spent him wherever he gave a show,
four of the visiting kings and most of her days lilling the Annie accepted the challenge.
11 Butler was astonished, Could
to the said Family farder, and at
card-playing Buffalo Bili: "Colonel, you never held she vickied to temptation this girt really dare to wager 50 dollars of her own money, us
four kings like this before." and took down from above well as 100 from her sponsor of
Cody quipped: "I've held four father's America? the fireplace hor
Annie Oakley returned to her kings, but four kings and ile entled "Puit" and ancient cap-and-ball rifle.
Clay lent to find Sliding Bull wait- Frank to target scared upwards.
Prince of Wales make a Royal patients, repeating referee und the
that is unprece- Butter fred
"Wantanyeya
Clacila" Flush--and the One after
over to himself in wonderment. dented!" cried "Dead. “ other the targets disintegrated in
It meant "Lituc Sure Shot. Only a few days later Bitting
Alone in her Royal box the
At the presenta- turned full circle. gimiet eyes. tion afterwards she said to Annie Oakley: You are a very clever little girl." At the age of a tender 27 Annie still looked teenager.
THE Kaiser read the note,
ww
but this time he did not smile, He knew like millions of others Annie Oakley
ed.
--- that never miss-
Annie Mozee, as she pre- ferred to calf herself, found
flying rider.
words
the
She was the only white women
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Frank Butler was falling too; a bent, white-haired old man of 76, he started south, secking a warmer climate for the remain- der of the winter. in Detroit he received the message he had been dreading. Annloe Oakley the dled on November 3, 1920. She was 60. Just 20 days later her Inseparable
dled too. partner They were buried side by side
outside invites your support in helping to cemetery just D
train the Hongkong citizens of to Greenville Creek where,
norrow, Subscriptions should be sent to The Hon. Treasurer, The plus game. Their
In
cus a
THE BOYS' a GmLS' CLUBS ASSOCIATION
ilves had) Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association.
that she was a natural with the air as Butler and Annie fired The uncanny marksman- a firearm. iler bag of game alternately. With the score at 24 Bull adopted her as his daughter. Queen of England watched with ohild Annie had sold her sur-
Annie Oatley. or increased so much that after they were still level. Butler fired "Little Sure Shot," is likely a very short time she was for the last time-and missed. Anie paused, shouted "Puli," never to be equalled or even taking the surplus to mur red and won the match.
in nearby Greenville, challenged by man or wo- ket
ship of
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A year
Oakley later Annie (she took the name from Cincinnati suburb) became Mrs Frank E. Butler. She was just 17, short, dark-haired and pretty. She could neither read nor write.
Butler's
in that huge cosmopolitan show.
To London
AME was hers. Soon she was playing to audiences in Now York, and Mark Twain was so Impressed by her astonishing From then she became part of accuracy that he went the next Frank
shooting act, night as well. It was Twain who Bill holding his targets and general suggested that Buffalo
But in Ume should take the Wild West to ly assisting him. It was Anate Oakley the crowds London.... and April, 1887, came to ses, often not notleing saw cowboys and Indiens pitch a tall, aniling man Ja the Ing their tents in Earls Court background her husband, the ex-champion.
Buffalo Bill
TT was in, April, 1805, that Mr
|T.
and Mrs Butler took the road
to Louisvile where Buffalo Bill
to
From England the show moved Europe, and the tour was a for Angla personal triumph
America performing. at the Dailey: 1883 saw her back in World's Fair. There her act con- back, bicycle and on foot, Sho sisted of shooting from horse- red two rides at once and still ever missed., While slx glass balls soared upwards she turned cartwheel, grabbed a repeating Long before the show opened rifle and shattered them oll distinguished visitors begin to before they fell. She shattered call. Prime Minister Gladstone talked with Buffalo Bill, while 100 clay pigeons in six minuter
30 seconds. Mrs Gladstone chatted to Annie Oakley.
Another caller was the fun-
loving Prince of Wales, later to
Disaster
was due to give one of his famed become Edward VII. On May 6 THEN came draster. Travel Wild West Shows, Beside the
he arrived with Princess Alex- 1 ung from Charlotte, North emply tents of the Indians and andra and their children for an Carolina, to Danville, Virginia, the silent showground
they sot up the gun table and began to impromptu Command Perform- the show train crashed head on practise Frank threw two glass ance. When it was over and the into a goods train near Lexing balls in the air, two rupid shots children's eyes had stopped pop- tor Only two horses murvived, followed and the balls had gone. ping out of their Royal heads, though no humans were died. the star performers were, pro- Annie Oni:icy's hair turned cpnted.
white with shock-in just 17 tours as Frank Butler sat at her bedside.
He had a clay target in his hand while Annie, 25 yards
her When it was Annie's turn the away, held a rifle over shoulder, taking, tim In the stepped past the Prince of polished blade of a life. A Wales's outstretched hard and, crack and the disc turot to with a dazzling smile shook powder. After a four moments hands with Princess Alexandra Buffalo Burg To the girl from the Now World
partner,
at
11
...
She spont months in hospital recovering from Internal Injurie which temporarily, paralysed one sklo of her body. When she loft
Nate Salobrom behind his old-world courtesy still applied. Une hoppital, a steel brede 'encl=" bidden vantage point. "Reassured! "Ladies," First!", London, was that she could perform, her feats shocked but the Prince was de on horsebackt as well, he hired lighted.
on the spot. The show was
Just three days ating the show than” dub to begin in lower than that opened to the public on May hours,
Before vrey Long Annie Oak- a menengo arrived from Quoc ley had became the star Victoria, beradi dommanding
Weth special performance, The Queed
ed her right leg. Pawing a gun club bear her home, she couldn't rosirs woling inside, Stowly she put down her wilking stick and fokit up a shotgun. /The alton- dans anlled almost in sorrow, then pulled the trap. The clay pl-con disintegrated, ja Anule could atiti modo
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