Annie Oakley, Courtney Ryley Cooper
Annie Oakley, Courtney Ryley Cooper
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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

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswoman who ever lived. Born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio, she built herself from obscure and impoverished beginnings into the best known woman of her time.

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.

About Courtney Ryley Cooper

Courtney Riley Cooper (1886-1940) was born in Kansas City, Missouri. At age sixteen, he left home to join the circus, eventually working as a press agent for Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody. Prior to serving in World War I, Cooper also worked as a news reporter. Following the war, he wrote sevaral novels, short stories, radio serials, and film scenarios, and he served as the principal ghostwriter for FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Among his publications are The Cross-Cut, The Pioneers, and The Golden Bubble.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on June 16, 2018

This book was very entertaining and educational. It tells all about how Annie Oakley lived and finally died. She is an American hero that should never be forgotten.......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui on July 26, 2013

A very adoring account of Annie Oakley's life, very vague on specific details and facts. Shirl Kasper and Glenda Riley have both written excellent modern biographies on Ms. Oakley, which are better reads for a more complete summary of her life and times. This biography, written probably a year or tw......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on March 31, 2013

It was a little stilted. The langauge of the biographer who referred to herself as such in the book was an odd mix of formal and impartial, sticking to facts. Then suddenly switching to a much warmer informal tone. Giving ancedotes some which was related on personal level. The biographer knew Annie......more

Goodreads review by The Scrivener's Quill on July 22, 2016

The writing and the reader aren't exceptional, but Annie Oakley needs to be more relevant. Wonderful woman, tremendous life story! I enjoyed seeing in this book the way modern society gradually moved out of the wild west and how the heroic and mythic players, both cowboys and Indians, came together u......more

Goodreads review by Inis on August 16, 2015

This book wonderfully portrays the kind of simple, courageous, hard working, special and especially honorable person Annie Oakley really was, and how she triumphed over many difficulties throughout her life, not to mention what an amazing shot she was!...I would recommend this book to everyone!......more