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Annie Oakley’s Real Name Was
Phoebe Ann Mosey


Annie Oakley’s Spirit Is Alive And Well In Ohio

by Tom Line
Butler County Sportsmen's Club

   
     While attending the Ohio Gun Collectors in Wilmington, I had the pleasure to meet a most interesting woman named Bess Moses Edwards.   Well it turns out that Bess’s great aunt is none other than the famous Annie Oakley, aka Little Miss Sure-Shot who was the star attraction trick shooter of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

   Annie Oakley was actually born Phoebe Ann Mosey near Greenville Ohio in 1860.  She learned to shoot in the fields of Ohio hunting game to help feed her widowed mother and brother and sisters.  While attending a shooting exhibition in Cincinnati, Annie beat trick-shooter and showman Frank Butler in a shooting contest.  Having found his better (as most men do), Frank married Annie and the talented couple began to tour the Vaudeville circuit where Annie continued to improve her already phenomenal shooting skills.  Later, from 1885 to 1901, Annie was a star attraction in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. 

     According to historical research, many of the stories of Annie’s life are quite lacking when it comes to real fact.  What we do know for certain is that Annie coached more than 2,000 women in firearms safety and shooting, opening the doors of sport shooting to women.  She used her money to help orphans and young women to attend college.  During the Great War, Annie visited military posts and demonstrated shooting and firearms safety to soldiers in training camps.   Annie continued to break records even after an accident forced her to wear a steel leg brace.  Annie died in 1926 at the age of 66.   

     With the leadership of the Annie Oakley foundation, Route 127, which passes near Annie Oakley’s gravesite, was recently named “Annie Oakley Memorial Pike”.  Each summer, now in August, the Annie Oakley Foundation helps host an Annie Oakley festival in Greenville, and plans are underway to construct a visitor’s center to house the foundation with exhibits about Little Miss Sure Shot.

The Annie Oakley Motto

“ Aim at the high mark and you will hit it. 
No, not the first time, nor the second and maybe not the third.
But keep on aiming and  keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. 
Finally, you’ll hit the Bull’s Eye of Success.”

Annie Oakley

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Annie Oakley Is A Great Role Model For Kids

   In an age where children are inundated with female role models the likes of Rosie and Madonna, how important that we can help teach them about a woman who’s life really did mean something, a woman who left us with a rich and important legacy.  Bess Moses Edwards,  the president of the Annie Oakley Foundation, regularly visits schools throughout Ohio showing slides and teaching school children about Annie Oakley.  If you ask me, Bess Moses Edwards is quite a strait shooter herself.  To invite Bess Moses Edwards to speak to schoolchildren in your community, contact the Annie Oakley Foundation at (937) 547-3966.   You can also visit their new photo-packed website to learn more at...

 http://www.AnnieOakley.org

 

The Annie Oakley Foundation

P.O. Box 127 Greenville, Ohio 45331

(937) 547-3966