When Frank Butler loaded his guns at a fairground outside Cincinnati, Ohio, one spring day in 1881, the last thing in his thoughts was a legend about to be born. A professional exhibition shooter who counted himself among the best in the country, Butler was prepared to outshoot all comers and make some money. Instead, he was beaten by the local favorite, a 21-year-old slip of a girl. Annie Mozee, as she called herself at the time, would soon explode into superstardom and become the embodi


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