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Discusses Annie's shows and encounters with legends like Buffalo Monthly bill Cody, Resting Bull, and Queen Victoria. "Aim at the high make and you'll struck it. No, not the first time, not the next time, and maybe not the 3rd. But keep on aiming and keep on taking, for only practice can make you perfect. Finally you'll struck the bull's-eye of success." (Annie Oakley) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential results, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most important women and men in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. The Outdoors Western world made legends out of many men, who came to be discovered with the unforgiving dynamics and spirit of the frontier. Men like Wyatt Earp have long been celebrated for their toughness, swagger, and fearless courage. So it is no real surprise that the few women who could match the men in toughness and gunplay have also become legends of the Western world. There is little about the youth of Phoebe Ann Mosey that indicated that she'd grow up to become Annie Oakley, among the best sharpshooters the world has ever seen, and an icon of the Western world. Her parents, Jacob and Susan, were Quakers who migrated from Pennsylvania to Darke Region, Ohio, after having a fire demolished their inn and their livelihood. Their little princess, who would become a national movie star during her own life for "The Little Sure Shot of the West", discovered her gun skills out necessarily, with them to hunt for food about the Cincinnati area, a large number of miles from the dusty towns and saloons of the Western world.
