Annie Oakley
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When Americans conjure their pantheon of gun-culture heroes, they evoke industrialists like Samuel Colt, inventors like John Moses Browning, and gunslingers like Annie Oakley.
From Slate • May 25, 2025
Kelly’s beloved dog, an elderly, Pomeranian-long haired Chihuahua mix named Annie Oakley, bounded down the carpeted staircase and wriggled across the linoleum kitchen floor, wagging her tail for attention.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023
"We would often get visits from Terry when he was in the navy," said Terry's cousin Annie Oakley, who now lives in Australia.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2022
This novel features a modern-day historian obsessed with the sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her possibly traumatic past.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2021
“And I wasn’t no Annie Oakley myself, except with squirrels.”
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
