Annie Oakley

Article abstract: An expert markswoman and consummate performer, Annie Oakley traveled throughout the United States and Europe demonstrating her expert shooting in an era when shooting was almost exclusively a man’s sport.

Early Life

Phoebe Anne Moses, nicknamed Annie, was the fourth daughter born to the Quakers Jacob and Susan Moses of rural Darke County, Ohio. When Annie was still a young child, Jacob taught her to hunt and to trap. After Jacob’s death from exposure in 1866, Susan and her eight children were left destitute. Young Annie was sent to...

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