Jan 7, 2009
Annie Oakley and the World of Her Time | Annie Oakley and the World of Her Time
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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