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Annie Oakley

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Shirl Kasper has written the most historically accurate book on Oakley. Her marriage to Butler was in 1882, remember she loped 6 years off her age when another younger woman sharpshooter joined Buffalo Bill's show? She was 21 when she married Butler, not 16 as many books show.

What an excellent book!! I could not put this book down!! It is a definate page-turner!! Very well written. The author did her research as it gives an insight to a great historical figure. I highly recommend this book!!!

This book is one of the best you could ask for on one of the least understood artifacts of Americana; Annie Oakley, the woman and the legend, the Cowgirl of the Golden West... NOT. In fact, who Annie really was is a far more fascinating tale than anything to be gleaned out of the "Annie get your gun-" type exploitational tributes and memorabilia, of which the real and unique Annie surely deserves better, and it's a tale Shirl Kasper tells consummately well. The text is sprightly, readable and lovingly detailed. To really know and understand Annie is to know and understand the America she lived in, about which our perceptions are more phony-baloney Ned Buntline-distorted than perhaps of any other American epoch. Excellent foundation volume for any American pop-cultural bookshelf.