Annie Oakley
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Uploaded by rtms1988 on Apr 19, 2010
Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always associated with the wild west, although she was born in 1860 as Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee (or Moses)in Darke County, Ohio. Nevertheless, she was a staple in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and similar wild west companies. Because of her diminutive stature, she was billed as "Little Sure Shot."
The man assisting her is this appearance is probably her husband, Frank E. Butler. Annie had outshot Butler (a famous dead-eye marksman himself) in a shooting contest in the 1880's. Instead of nursing his bruised ego because he had been throughly outgunned by a woman, Butler fell in love, married Little Sure Shot, and became her manager.
Theirs was a solid and happy marriage that lasted 44 years, and when Annie died on November 3, 1926, at age 66, a heartbroken Butler followed her to the grave 18 days later.
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@HOMEnHIGH No!, Michael Jackson sang about a Woman named Billie Jean.
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@matrox ...is this the woman Michael Jackson sang about...."Annie oakley...are you oakley are you oakley Annie"...?
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When I look back at the footage looks like she did get only one of the coin tosses. You can tell because all the coins came back down except one.
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@PyroGothNerd I suspect many people were overrated back then for deeds they have claimed, or the deeds others have claimed about them. Remember she was a show gal and I bet she missed a lot even though she probably could shoot better than the average person could. A lot of talk sold tickets and lots of ticket sales were to printed material. If she missed it was brushed off and forgotten. Not like it would be shown on Youtube, TV or even captured on camera. But someone get it on this old footage
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@matrox well, I suppose you could be right. I'm still kinda skeptical. This is probably just practice for her anyway.
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@PyroGothNerd Because the coin would have disappeared when knocked off course by the bullett.
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@matrox Dude...HOW THE HECK CAN YOU TELL?!?! That's kinda scary
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Looks like she missed all the coin toss ups, but nice try.
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I'm not impressed anyone can shoot a target from 10 feet away as in the targets on the panel.
matrox 1 year ago
@matrox Ok, I like this video just because it's old and historical.
rtms1988 1 year ago