The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by Glenda Riley

Author:Glenda Riley [Riley, Glenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Women, History, United States, 19th Century, test
ISBN: 9780806187242
Google: KLTOlPFj2VAC
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-11-14T08:00:00+00:00

Oakley similarly maintained her composure at a shooting exhibition she gave in 1886 at the Middlesex Gun Club in Dunellen, New Jersey. Members set the trap as tight as they could so that, according to Annie, they could "have a good laugh" at her. But, when the weather turned blustery and cold, Annie took heavy shells along and loaded her guns for fast clays. When the traps spewed out the first two try-out birds, Annie said that she just grinned and smashed them both. During her exhibition, she performed rifle and revolver stunts, then shot at fifty clays. In her last stunt, Annie sprang the trap herself, ran twenty feet, jumped over a table, picked up her gun from the ground, and aimed at two clay birds. Even when she slipped on the wet grass and landed on the ground, Annie reached down and caught her gun anyway. In her words, she "banged from a sitting posture" and hit one bird but missed the other. She picked herself up and tried again. This time she hit both birds. "That club was all right," Annie concluded. "They gave me a handsome medal and stated that the joke was on them.''

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