Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West

by Isabelle S. Sayers

Book Overview

"You are a very, very clever little girl." -- Queen Victoria to Annie Oakley
Her life was the stuff of legend -- from humble Quaker origins in Darke County, Ohio, Annie Oakley (nee Phoebe Ann Moses) rose to the heights of renown as a world-famous entertainer and featured performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West extravaganza. Her self-discipline, showmanship, and legendary gifts as a sharpshooter earned her the adulation of millions; yet to close...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486241203
• ISBN13: 9780486241203
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Check out page 10!

Awesome photos, including one on page 10 I haven't seen anywhere else. If you look closely, you can see Annie's nipple thru her outfit!! Mmmmmm--I can imagine victorian Annie blushed and was mortified and wanted to destroy the photo, but her husband grinned and kept the picture himself! I wonder....

Probably the best

This is probably the best book about Annie Oakley although it is mostly intended as an illustrated album. It narrates the life story of "little sharp shot" with particular emphasis on the period where she joined the Buffalo Bill Wild West performance, which was, of course, her prime. The photos are great and the book teaches us a lot about show business mechanisms which we think are very recent but have been used from the days of yore. I particularly like that amazing picture of Buffalo Bill and some indians crossing a venetian sqare in a gondola. How post-modern can you get? The only thing preventing me from giving it a 5 star is the paper quality that is not that good but, for this price could you ask for more? A great book for those who like the West, to know how legends and myths were made, the ways of the world in the late 19th century and, above all, why the USA has such an influence in European pop culture today.