opfturbo.blogg.se - Who Was Annie Oakley? by Stephanie Spinner

“Somehow we managed to struggle along,” Annie said of those times.Īnnie always liked roaming in the woods. They cared for the animals, did the laundry, worked in the garden, baked and cooked and sewed, and looked after the babies. They were very poor.Īnnie and her brother and sisters helped out as best they could. But her wages-$1.25 a week-were not nearly enough to feed and clothe the family. Susan Moses was a hardworking country nurse. He left her mother, Susan, with six young children to care for. Sadly, Jacob Moses died of pneumonia when Annie was five years old. Even as a tiny girl, Annie loved to go hunting with her father. It was also close enough to the woods for good hunting. Her birthplace-a rough settler’s cabin built by her father, Jacob-was near the tiny village of Woodland. Phoebe Ann Moses was born on August 13, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio. Most important, it changed the image of American women forever. Her life story inspired books, movies, television shows, and Broadway musicals. She was one of the best-known women of her age, and the public loved her, yet she was never anything but modest and down-to-earth. She was quiet, even shy, yet a brilliant performer.ĭuring her lifetime, 1860–1926, women were paid far less than men, but at her peak she earned as much as the President of the United States. While most women stayed at home with their children, she traveled the world performing for enormous crowds, living happily in a big canvas tent. In an age when ladies did not handle guns, she became a sharp-shooting legend. Her real name was Phoebe Ann Moses, and she ignored rules all her life.

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