Frank Butler, Annie Oakley’s husband, has to be one of the most unjustly maligned figures in the American West. Films portray him as a philandering cad, jealous of his wife’s skill with firearms and capable of resorting to pathetic and destructive measures to assert his manhood. In 1935’s Annie Oakley, Frank doesn’t even get to use his own name. As Toby Walker, he wounds Annie while shooting a coin from her hand and temporarily puts her out of business. In 1950’s Annie Get Yo


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