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As a young girl in Ohio, Annie Oakley learned to hunt game to keep her impoverished family fed. By the time she was a teenager she’d grown skilled enough to easily beat a traveling sharpshooter named Frank Butler in a public shooting match – and win his heart in the process. The two soon married, and in 1885 Oakley joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, becoming an international sensation and an emblem of frontier womanhood, all while carefully shaping her own image. But after nearly two decades as a performer, a newspaper scandal would draw her into a legal battle to c...
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Audible subscribers can binge new seasons of American history tellers early and ad-free right now. Join Audible in the Audible app, or by subscribing on Apple Podcasts. Imagine it's November 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio. You're a traveling sharpshooter, and for several months now you've been making your way across the Midwest Audible Circuit.
If there's a crowd and prize money involved, you'll take part in just about anything that involves a gun, from trick shot displays to exhibitions to shooting matches. Today, you're at the local shooting hill, where you're expecting to impress the crowd
by skillfully shooting down clay pigeons more quickly and accurately than your opponent before collecting your winnings and moving on. Your match is about to start, so you find a seat on a nearby bench and begin methodically cleaning your shotgun.
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