#Annie Oakley

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Annie Oakley Souvenir Target Card with Single Shot

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Annie Oakley Shooting A Gun Over Her Shoulder Using A Hand Mirror, 1899

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ANNIE OAKLEY [J. WOOD, XIX.C.]

Cabinet card of Annie Oakley, Little Sure Shot, as nicknamed in the lower margin, showing the famed female shooter standing with a small single-shot rifle, posed next to a a display of her guns, medals, and a trophy.

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Workin' in the Moonlight by QuickedWeen (2.2k, T)

Harriet Styles follows her sharpshooter cousin-in-law on tour as his assistant. It's not a great life, but she has a little money in her pocket. Then, he makes a foolhardy bet.

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 19th Century, Girl Direction, Shooting Guns, mentioned, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, so briefly, if you blink you miss it

Written for @wordplayfics 2024 for the prompt: tight

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Annie Oakley was born on this date (8/13) in 1860

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The right to defend yourself

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Annie Oakley :)

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"1884 Buffalo Bill Cody - Souvenir - Wild West Show." 

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Annie Oakley

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This Day in History: Annie Oakley

On this day in 1860, the woman known as Annie Oakley is born. That wasn’t her real name, of course. The famous sharpshooter’s name at birth was Phoebe Ann Mosey.

Annie was nothing if not talented. “At 30 paces she could split a playing card held edge-on,” one commentator notes, “she hit dimes tossed into the air, she shot cigarettes from her husband’s lips, and, a playing card being thrown into the air, she riddled it before it touched the ground.”

She could even fire over her shoulder, using only a hand-held mirror

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-annie-oakley

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Annie Oakley's heart target, private collection, Los Angeles, California, 2010 [Photograph: Annie Leibovitz]

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Truth’s an indefinite article. 

When we live, we live for the last time,                                                           as Akhmatova says, 

One the in a world of a.

—Charles Wright, from “Broken English” in Chickamauga (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995)

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Annie Leibowicz (American, b.1949) - Annie Oakley’s heart target - one of Oakley’s most popular stunts was shooting through the center of a small, inch-wide heart on a card from around 40 feet away