Annie Oakley

By Shirl Kasper

Book Overview

"Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I'll tell you what. You must have your mind, your nerve, and everything in harmony. Don't look at your gun, simply follow the object with the end of it, as if the tip of the barrel was the point of your finger."--Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley is a legend: America's greatest female sharpshooter, a woman who triumphed in the masculine world of road shows and firearms. Despite her great fame, the popular image of Annie Oakley is far from true. She was neither a swaggering western gal nor a sweet little girl. Annie Oakley was a competitive woman resolved to be the best, and she succeeded. In this comprehensive biography Shirl Kasper sets the record straight, giving us an accurate, honest, and compelling portrait of the woman known as "Little Sure Shot."

Now updated with a new afterword, this account illuminates the life and legend of Annie Oakley, including her start as a comedienne, her later life with Frank Butler, and her final years and struggles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806132442
• ISBN13: 9780806132440
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Annie would have loved it

This book is one of the best you could ask for on one of the least understood artifacts of Americana; Annie Oakley, the woman and the legend, the Cowgirl of the Golden West... NOT. In fact, who Annie really was is a far more fascinating tale than anything to be gleaned out of the "Annie get your gun-" type exploitational tributes and memorabilia, of which the real and unique Annie surely deserves better, and it's a tale Shirl Kasper tells consummately well. The text is sprightly, readable and lovingly detailed. To really know and understand Annie is to know and understand the America she lived in, about which our perceptions are more phony-baloney Ned Buntline-distorted than perhaps of any other American epoch. Excellent foundation volume for any American pop-cultural bookshelf.

A page turner!!

What an excellent book!! I could not put this book down!! It is a definate page-turner!! Very well written. The author did her research as it gives an insight to a great historical figure. I highly recommend this book!!!