Annie Oakley
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When Americans conjure their pantheon of gun-culture heroes, they evoke industrialists like Samuel Colt, inventors like John Moses Browning, and gunslingers like Annie Oakley.
From Slate ● May 25, 2025
"We would often get visits from Terry when he was in the navy," said Terry's cousin Annie Oakley, who now lives in Australia.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022
This novel features a modern-day historian obsessed with the sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her possibly traumatic past.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
Annie Get Your Gun A mini-marathon of classic American musicals includes this 1950 adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Broadway hit about Wild West show sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
Annie’s last name is Stokely, but I call her Annie Oakley.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
