Annie Oakley: Wild West Sharpshooter (Primary Sources of Famous People in American History)

Porterfield, Jason; Link, Theodore

ISBN 10: 0823941027 ISBN 13: 9780823941025

Publisher: Rosen Young Adult, 2003

Synopsis

Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.

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Reviewed with Kathleen Collins' Jesse James.

Gr. 2-4. Aimed at very young researchers, this new series has the most unwieldy of names: Primary Sources of Famous People in American History. Yet the books are written in the simplest of language, and the design features big print with lots of white space, many contemporaneous pictures, and an abbreviated time line and glossary. Annie Oakley's colorful history is captured more in the photographs than in the basic text, but it does cover her hardscrabble early life; her tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (where she met her husband and manager, Frank Butler); and her devotion to Native American rights and teaching women to shoot. Jesse James follows the same format. Kids will be attracted, but the book is less successful, perhaps because it is harder to explain the allure of robbery and murder in simple terms. GraceAnne DeCandido
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0823941027
• ISBN 13: 9780823941025
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32