Download or read book Little Sureshot and the Wild West Show written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT LITTLE SURESHOT AND THE WILD WEST SHOW A Gunsmith Giant Edition When his friends are in need, Clint Adams comes running. And boy, are his friends in need... Frank Butler has a problem on his hands. Turns out his wife is being stalked by an obsessed sharpshooter bent on revenge— a major problem when you're in New York City and your wife is none other than Little Sureshot, Annie Oakley. So who better than Frank's old friend, Clint Adams, to come to the rescue? Trouble is, Frank's not the only one who needs the Gunsmith. Buffalo Bill Cody's in town, and he'll do almost anything to get Clint and Annie into his flagging Wild West Show. Looks like Clint's got his hands full. Add in a shady Brooklyn detective, a pair of gorgeous vixens hot for the Gunsmith's holster, and Chief Sitting Bull himself, and you've got yourself a classic western shoot 'em up—in Manhattan...

Download or read book Little Sure Shot written by Jennifer Silate and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885, sharpshooter Annie Oakley has to prove herself to Buffalo Bill Cody, owner of a popular Wild West show.

Download or read book Little Sure Shot written by Stephanie Spinner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. Travel back to the era of Buffalo Bill and the Wild West and meet the most famous sharpshooter of all time, Annie Oakley, who could shoot backward by looking in a mirror--or a knife blade!

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Deanne Stillman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction The little-known but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West—Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull—told through the prism of their collaboration in Cody's Wild West show in 1885. “Splendid… Blood Brothers eloquently explores the clash of cultures on the Great Plains that initially united the two legends and how this shared experience contributed to the creation of their ironic political alliance.” —Bobby Bridger, Austin Chronicle It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody—known across the land as Buffalo Bill—conceived of his Wild West show, an “equestrian extravaganza” featuring cowboys and Indians. It was a great success, and for four months in 1885 the Lakota chief Sitting Bull appeared in the show. Blood Brothers tells the story of these two iconic figures through their brief but important collaboration, in “a compelling narrative that reads like a novel” (Orange County Register). “Thoroughly researched, Deanne Stillman’s account of this period in American history is elucidating as well as entertaining” (Booklist), complete with little-told details about the two men whose alliance was eased by none other than Annie Oakley. When Sitting Bull joined the Wild West, the event spawned one of the earliest advertising slogans: “Foes in ’76, Friends in ’85.” Cody paid his performers well, and he treated the Indians no differently from white performers. During this time, the Native American rights movement began to flourish. But with their way of life in tatters, the Lakota and others availed themselves of the chance to perform in the Wild West show. When Cody died in 1917, a large contingent of Native Americans attended his public funeral. An iconic friendship tale like no other, Blood Brothers is a timeless story of people from different cultures who crossed barriers to engage each other as human beings. Here, Stillman provides “an account of the tragic murder of Sitting Bull that’s as good as any in the literature…Thoughtful and thoroughly well-told—just the right treatment for a subject about which many books have been written before, few so successfully” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Download or read book The Trials of Annie Oakley written by Chris Enss and published by TwoDot. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the silver screen placed Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of the first "America's Sweetheart." After winning first prize at a shooting match as a teenager, Annie quickly gained worldwide fame as an incredible crack shot. In August 1903, when she was well known as a champion shot in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Oakley became a target of defamation by a reporter for a newspaper owned by media magnate William Randolph Hearst. The libelous story alleged that the famous sure shot had been arrested for stealing and buying drugs. Annie sent a telegram denying the claim and asked the story to be retracted. Hearst refused and the story was then published in all his newspapers. Miss Oakley responded with a libel suit and spent seven years in court fighting the well-known businessman. During the long, drawn-out legal battle, Annie was struggling with health issues. Despite these trials she poured her energy into advocating for the U.S. military, encouraging women to engage in sport shooting, and supporting orphans.

Download or read book Annie Oakley Little Sure Shot written by Caitlind L. Alexander and published by Learning Island. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Oakley went from a life of poverty and abuse, to being one of the most famous women in the world. She made her own way, learning to fire guns like a man and perfecting the art of sharp shooting. When she joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, her fame spread. Finally she found happiness in both her personal and her professional life. Find out more about this woman who could outshoot any man in this short 15-minute children's biography. Ages 10 and up. Reading Level: 6.3 LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Download or read book The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley written by Glenda Riley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of America's greatest female sharpshooter delves beneath her popular image to reveal a conservative but competitive woman who wanted to succeed.

Download or read book Little Sure Shot Annie Oakley Stars in Buffalo Bill s Wild West Show written by Jennifer Silate and published by Rosen Classroom Books & Materials. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 copies (Fiction)

Download or read book Buffalo Bill s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World written by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful full color litho cover, stagecoach under attack from Indians, cameo portrait of W.F. Cody.

Download or read book The Popular Frontier written by Frank Christianson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European perceptions of the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West. As editor Frank Christianson explains in his introduction, for the first four years after Cody conceived it, the Wild West exhibition toured the United States, honing the operation into a financially solvent enterprise. When the troupe ventured to England for its first overseas booking, its success exceeded all expectations. Between 1887 and 1906 the Wild West performed in fourteen countries, traveled more than 200,000 miles, and attracted a collective audience in the tens of millions. How did Europeans respond to Cody’s vision of the American frontier? And how did European countries appropriate what they saw on display? Addressing these questions and others, the contributors to this volume consider how the Wild West functioned within social and cultural contexts far grander in scope than even the vast American West. Among the topics addressed are the pairing of William F. Cody and Theodore Roosevelt as embodiments of frontier masculinity, and the significance of the show’s most enduring persona, Annie Oakley. An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West’s foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture.

Download or read book America s Best Female Sharpshooter written by Julia Bricklin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, most remember “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) as Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley’s conservative “prairie beauty” persona clashed with Smith’s tendency to wear flashy clothes and keep company with the cowboys and American Indians she performed with. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West showbiz life that Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star. Drawing on family records, press accounts, interviews, and numerous other sources, historian Julia Bricklin peels away the myths that enshroud Smith’s fifty-year career. Known as “The California Huntress” before she was ten years old, Smith was a professional sharpshooter by the time she reached her teens, shooting targets from the back of a galloping horse in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West. Not only did Cody offer $10,000 to anyone who could beat her, but he gave her top billing, setting the stage for her rivalry with Annie Oakley. Being the best female sharpshooter in the United States was not enough, however, to differentiate Lillian Smith from Oakley and a growing number of ladylike cowgirls. So Smith reinvented herself as “Princess Wenona,” a Sioux with a violent and romantic past. Performing with Cody and other showmen such as Pawnee Bill and the Miller brothers, Smith led a tumultuous private life, eventually taking up the shield of a forged Indian persona. The morals of the time encouraged public criticism of Smith’s lack of Victorian femininity, and the press’s tendency to play up her rivalry with Oakley eventually overshadowed Smith’s own legacy. In the end, as author Julia Bricklin shows, Smith cared more about living her life on her own terms than about her public image. Unlike her competitors who shot to make a living, Lillian Smith lived to shoot.

Download or read book Annie Oakley written by Shirl Kasper and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I’ll tell you what. You must have your mind, your nerve, and everything in harmony. Don’t look at your gun, simply follow the object with the end of it, as if the tip of the barrel was the point of your finger.”—Annie Oakley Annie Oakley is a legend: America’s greatest female sharpshooter, a woman who triumphed in the masculine world of road shows and firearms. Despite her great fame, the popular image of Annie Oakley is far from true. She was neither a swaggering western gal nor a sweet little girl. Annie Oakley was a competitive woman resolved to be the best, and she succeeded. In this comprehensive biography Shirl Kasper sets the record straight, giving us an accurate, honest, and compelling portrait of the woman known as “Little Sure Shot.” Now updated with a new afterword, this account illuminates the life and legend of Annie Oakley, including her start as a comedienne, her later life with Frank Butler, and her final years and struggles.

Download or read book Red Water written by J. R. Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Download or read book Gunsmith 377 written by J. R. Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE KING IS DEAD Wyoming rancher Bill Werter is in serious trouble when Texas fever claims a number of his cattle—including his prize bull, King. Now, he needs someone trustworthy to ride into Mexico with ten thousand dollars of his hard-earned money to buy the only bull that could take King’s place: El Duque. Good thing Werter has a friend like the Gunsmith. When word gets out that Clint Adams is heading to Mexico with pockets full of cash, it doesn’t take long for a few bad seeds to spring into action. But tracking the Gunsmith isn’t easy. It’s not safe either—and that’s no bull. OVER 15 MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT!

Download or read book Slocum and the Town Killers written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Download or read book Slocum 358 written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum hunts a bandit bent on revenge! Twenty years ago, Slocum sent the outlaw Durango to prison. Released by a bought pardon, Durango goes back to his outlaw ways, terrorizing the folks in the village of Annahia. With the help of Dona, a spunky border woman in need of an escort home, Slocum journeys into Mexico in search of the ruthless bandit. Now Slocum has to outwit Durango, before the outlaw from his past puts an end to his future…

Download or read book Longarm 432 written by Tabor Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These moonshiners trade in firewater…and death! One good lawman has already been murdered in pursuit of Missouri moonshiners who could care less if their rotgut leaves a person blind—or even dead. Now it’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long’s turn to search out their stills and make sure these moonshiners don’t see the light of day. But as Longarm explores the back country, he learns there’s far more at stake than selling bad hooch to the locals. Intoxicated by greed, one man is behind an ambitious whiskey-running operation to sell firewater—and firearms—to the Indians. It’s up to Longarm to give this liquor-lugging lunatic a shot and a chaser of a little something called justice…