Annie Oakley and the World of Her Time (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Clifford Lindsey Alderman
- First Published: 1979
- Time of Work: 1860–1926
- Setting: Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York, Ohio, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Annie Oakley, Frank Butler, William Frederick Cody, Charles Katzenberger, Sitting Bull
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Entertaining or entertainers, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Guns, Shooting
- Locales: Europe, New York, New Orleans, LA, Ohio, Kansas, New Jersey, Illinois, Nebraska
Form and Content
The list of twenty-four references at the end of Annie Oakley and the World of Her Time reveals how carefully Clifford Alderman researched the material pertaining to this biography. Alderman uses actual facts, times, and places to authenticate the sequences of events of Annie Oakley’s life, beginning with her birth in 1860. Alderman commences with a short review of Oakley’s early life and follows with several chapters covering her years of fame. The biography concludes with Oakley’s gradual, peaceful death in 1926. Throughout the book, Alderman’s...
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