This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birth in mid nineteenth century rural Pennsylvania to her death in 1926. Many myths are overturned and the program also features a little known trial when Annie Oakley had to sue The Hearst Newspaper chain all throughout the country for libel when they reported the activities of someone who was impersonating the famed sharpshooter and besmirching her reputation.
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Cast of episode
- Narrator
- Annie Oakley
- Attorney
- Attorney
- Self - Historian
- Self - Biographer
- Self - Associate Professor of Women's Studies
- Self - Firearms Historian
- Self - Theatre Historian
- Self - Cultural Historian
- Self - Historian
- Self - Professor of History
- Historian
- Self
- Self - Professional Sharpshooter and Annie Oakley's Husband
- Self
- Self
- Self
- Annie Oakley in 'Annie Get Your Gun' (film version)
- Annie Oakley in 'Annie Get Your Gun' (stage version)
- Self
- Self
- Self