By 1922, “Little Sure Shot” Annie Oakley had been famous throughout the United States and Europe for decades. She'd been born Phoebe Ann Moses (or Mosey) on Aug. 13, 1860, and had been shooting since a young girl.
Audiences to the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show had watched with amazement as this pint-sized woman showed an accuracy with a rifle that few men could hope to match. They'd watched her hit 4,7

April 2017
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- The Luckiest Woman in America
- Between Yellowstone and Glacier, 3 Must-See Mining Ghost Towns
- Guns, Indians and the West
- Love The Hair, Sweetie
- Sink or Swim
- Colorful Phrases of the West
- An Exercise in Monotony
- Lessons From The Stagecoach
- A Biographer’s Take on Doc & Wyatt
- Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp
- When Doc Met Wyatt
- Globe, Arizona
- What’s Actor Dennis Weaver’s Story?
- Bucking Broncos and Breaking Barriers
- Bandit Queen Belle Starr
- Plump, Plumper, Plumpest
- Get Your Kicks on Route 66 with Doc and Wyatt
- Cyclone Bill
- The Loneliest Road to Old West History
- Laudanum In The Old West
- “Duck You, Sucker!”
- A Toast to Gold: 150 Years Later
- Road to Gold & Redemption
- Mexican Food: An Arizona Favorite
- The Nation Marched Forward During March
- The Dead Man In The Picture
- Texas Feud
- A Grave Discovery
- The Birth of a Wicked Son Reimagined
- Oh Annie, You Really Showed ‘Em
- What Music Did Gen. Santa Anna Request During The Alamo Battle?
- The Baca Float #5
- Stopping a Death Squad
- Guerrilla Warriors
- Roy Barcroft
- Hoot Gibson
Departments
- There’s Copper in Them Thar Hills
- Classic Gunfights: Doc Hits Bottom (but not much else)
- The Picnic Disease
- Why Do Western Actors Rarely Wear Spurs On Screen?
- What History Has Taught Me: Gary L. Roberts
- Did Old West Trains Have Bathrooms?
- How Did “Killer” Jim Miller Escape Justice For So Long?
- Hell on the Buffalo Range
- Did The “Buntline Special” Gun Really Exist?
- A First for Custer Firearms
- The Tombstone Collector