Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Oakley developed hunting …

Annie Oakley is a famous markswoman known for her sharpshooting. During her lifetime she traveled with her husband across the country and abroad showing off her skills with a rifle. She became a star …

Nov 6, 2025 · Annie Oakley (born Aug. 13, 1860, Darke county, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 3, 1926, Greenville, Ohio) was an American markswoman who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, where …

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One of the first and most well-known female show sharpshooters to perform in history was a woman known by the name of Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley gained notoriety as the star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild …

Both lucky and extremely talented, Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood in Ohio and become the first female superstar in what had been a male-dominated...

She starred for several years in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Her stage acts were filmed for one of Thomas Edison's earliest Kinetoscopes in 1894. Later in life, Oakley trained other women in …

Annie Oakley was a pioneer of sexual equality and a star performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Moses, to a poor Quaker family and spent her early years living in a …

Sue Macy writes in National Geographic ’s Bull’s-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley that Annie helped feed the family by making traps to catch game before taking up her father’s rifle.

Oakley was reintroduced to later generations of young Americans in 1946 in the musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman on Broadway and Betty Hutton on film.