Friday, March 22, 2013

Annie Oakley






Annie Oakley was a famous American sharpshooter and exhibition sharpshooter.  Her real birthname was Phoebe Ann Moses.   She learned her shooting skills as a child from having to learn how to hunt to feed herself and her family.  As an adult, she had a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.  Guns are an old and consistant part of American culture and always will be.  To those that want to ban guns, get over it.   Respect for guns should be universally taught, as well as proper punishment for criminals who commit heinous crimes.  Guns are a tool, just like anything else.  Good morals should be taught to all Americans and the usage of guns to murder people should not be glorified in movies or music.


Annie began trapping at a young age, and shooting and hunting by age eight to support her siblings and her widowed mother. She sold the hunted game for money to locals in Greenville, as well as restaurants and hotels in southern Ohio. Her skill eventually paid off the mortgage on her mother's farm when Annie was 15.
Oakley's perhaps most famous trick is being able to repeatedly split a playing card, edge-on, and put several more holes in it before it could touch the ground, while using a .22 caliber rifle, at 90 feet.
 

 
  
Oakley continued to set records into her sixties, and she also engaged in extensive, albeit quiet, philanthropy for women's rights and other causes, including the support of specific young women that she knew. She embarked on a comeback and intended to star in a feature-length silent movie. In a 1922 shooting contest in Pinehurst, North Carolina, sixty-two-year-old Oakley hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards (15 m).
In late 1922, Oakley and Butler suffered a debilitating automobile accident that forced her to wear a steel brace on her right leg. Yet after a year and a half of recovery, she again performed and set records in 1924.


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)


Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley


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