Baby Accurate Shot, whose talent prevented war (15 photos + 1 video)

Annie was born in 1860 in Dark County, Ohio. And already in At the age of eight, instead of a doll, she had to pick up a rifle.





The family was large, and the shot game helped somehow to stay afloat after the death of his father from pneumonia. Mother had to to give her daughter to be raised in another family, where Annie lived very hard. Then the woman remarried and took the child, but life is still She was very poor, on the verge of poverty.



Annie as a child

So the girl came to the idea to help the family by starting to hunt. She sold the booty to city restaurants. Willingly bought game and residents of Greenville. And Annie, while still a teenager, was able to close her debts on loans for the farm and the mother's house.



In 1881, Oakley met the roving gunslinger Frank Butler. The guy drank in a bar and boasted of his ability to shoot accurately. Frank made a $100 bet that he could easily beat any local arrow. And he was amazed when some girl "made" it. He was fascinated by an unusual girl and began to court Annie. couple legitimized relationship and began to travel around the country with performances already together.



Annie and Frank

After a few years of performing in a duet, the spouses joined Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" show. Annie became his the brightest star. The audience rejoiced and froze in admiration when the girl extinguished candles with shots, pierced an apple on her husband’s head or dealt a heart exactly in the center of the ace of hearts card.



Broken Annie card

The signature number was a shot at the end of the card with thirty meters distance. And while she was flying, Annie a few more times managed to get into it.



If Oakley had not been such a mark, she could have prevented war. It happened like this: during the European tour of 1890, a woman performed before such titled persons as Queen Victoria, Italian King Umberto I, French President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot and Not only. In Berlin, she knocked the ashes off a cigarette with a well-aimed shot only that crowned Kaiser Wilhelm II. who played not last role in the outbreak of the First World War. Subsequently furious the woman sent an appeal and a letter to the Kaiser personally to The New York Times, in which she cursed her accuracy and asked for a second shot. It is clear that the letter remained unanswered.













In mature years



Annie was in a serious train accident and car accident, survived several surgeries, paralysis and a long recovery. And again she returned to her favorite business, continuing not only set records, but also teach women how to handle weapons (who, by the way, more than 15 thousand).






In 1925, the woman's health began to deteriorate rapidly. AND she died a year later at the age of 66. Husband could not survive longing for his little Annie and left after her a couple of weeks later.