Annie Oakley of the Wild West

by Walter Havighurst

Book Overview

Born in rural Ohio in 1860, Annie Moses rose from poverty to become Annie Oakley, the diminutive star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show who could outshoot any man. She comes fully to life in this rousing biography by Walter Havighurst, the respected historian of the Old Northwest. In her probing introduction to this Bison Book edition, Christine Bold considers the striking incongruities, the symbolic meanings, of Annie Oakley's life and career.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803272537
• ISBN13: 9780803272538
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Unp - Nebraska
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

As a relative I can tell you, this is a good book!

I am a great, great niece of Phoebe Anne Moses Butler. This is one of the best bios I've ever read. Although Annie Fern Swartwout was also a neice and wrote a good biography, the family in general feels she embellished significantly. Mr. Havighurst is very factual and presents Aunt Annie as the lady she was...not some saloon swinging wench. Thank you Mr. Havighurst. And to put the name thing to rest once and for all, her last name was Moses not Mozee...she just didn't like it and took the liberty to change it. It's that simple.

annie oakley biography

This is a great book, the best book I have read in a long time. I feel like I am traveling the world with Annie and the Wild West Show.

it was ok

The book had alot of information just it didn't really focus on Annie it was on Buffalo Bill's show more often. It wasn't very helpful in the report I did on her.