This is the story of the one and only Annie Oakley, the little backwoods girl who shot her way to fame and fortune at the age of sixteen and became the world's champion markswoman.

As the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, she electrified audiences in America and in the great capitals of Europe. She astonished royalty with her feats of daring and was a triumphal success at Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. As the wife of Frank Butler, an equally daring performer, "Little Sure Shot", the name given her by Sitting Bull, spent fifty of the happiest years of her life traveling and giving sharpshooting exhibitions that justified her reputation as the most phenomenal markswoman of all times.

While this is primarily the story of Annie Oakley, it is also a fascinating piece of Americana, for it is the story of  Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show which brought to life the vivid and thrilling epics of the real West.

In her usual vivid style, with her passion for detail and her keen understanding of people and events that made up the history of the West, Shannon Garst gives us an exciting biography of the extraordinary Annie Oakley who has won a place for herself in western Americana.

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