

Annie Oakley
Woman at Arms
Author: Courtney Ryley Cooper
Narrator: Jonathan Reese
Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/13/2008
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Women
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
Courtney Ryley Cooper's classic biography traces Oakley's extraordinary journey and separates the facts from the many legends that have sprung up in its wake. We learn of her enduring marriage to Frank Butler and their first meeting, a shooting match in which the seemingly delicate young girl defeated the professional marksman; her association with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show and its triumphal tour through Europe and America; the train crash that nearly took her life; and her years as an actress and teacher. Her story remains to this day one of the grandest to have come out of the Old West.