Annie Oakley never thought one of her rivals, Frank Butler, would win her heart.
Annie Oakley's reputation as a marksman (woman) spread throughout the area, but men still thought they could beat her. She took on all comers for sport and a price, but she never thought that one of her rivals, Frank Butler, would win her heart.
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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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