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
The very next year, Thomas Edison made a 90-second film of “Little Miss Sure Shot,” Annie Oakley, performing some of her marksmanship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
"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
With its boxy geometry and dogtrot porch — three rooms on one side of the breezeway and two on the other — the folk-style house looks like a collaboration between Donald Judd and Annie Oakley.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2018
Annie’s last name is Stokely, but I call her Annie Oakley.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
