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Landau, Elaine.
ANNIE OAKLEY : WILD WEST SHARPSHOOTER
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, 2004.
IL 5-8, RL 6.1
ISBN 0766022056
I have heard of Annie Oakley and I thought I knew her story.  But there is much more to it than I knew.  She was born in 1860 and was a natural with a gun.  At age 8, she would go hunting for food for her family.  By the time she was 16, she was a sharpshooter and won a contest and the heart of the man she competed against.  The two went on to form the Wild West Show and entertained people around the world.  This is the story of Annie Oakley : Wild West Sharpshooter.
Non fiction
 
SUBJECTS:     Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926.
                        Sharpshooters.
                        Entertainers.
                        Women -- Biography.

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