While other girls her age were inside learning to sew, young Annie Oakley was outside shooting small game and loving it.
While other girls her age were inside learning to sew, young Annie Oakley was outside shooting small game and loving it. When her family was left without a breadwinner, she used the Kentucky rifle to feed them.
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The Wild West holds a special place in American history—Western films depict it as a place where the rules didn't apply, and where scores were settled with gun slinging and shootouts. The colorful characters who made up the old West were men, women, cowboys, Indians, sheriffs just plain outlaws. Though we've come to have a more nuanced understanding of the good and the bad of the old West, we can still learn from the stories of the people who made it and who wrote about what it was.
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Take a look at famous people named Annie, such as Annie Lenox, Annie Leibovitz, and Annie Jump Cannon.
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