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American Experience
Season 18 · Episode 12
Annie Oakley
0.055mMay 8, 2006
An on-target profile of the sharpshooter (1860-1926) who was “the first American woman ever to become a superstar.” Included: Oakley, at 15, winning a shooting match with future husband Frank Butler; achieving stardom with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; filing libel suits against a number of newspapers for reporting that she was a drug addict; teaching thousands of women to shoot, while opposing women's suffrage.
Episodes
- Episode 1Two Days in October
- Episode 2Race to the Moon
- Episode 3Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (1): Sin City
- Episode 4Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
- Episode 5John and Abigail Adams
- Episode 6The Nuremberg Trials
- Episode 7Jesse James
- Episode 8Hijacked
- Episode 9Eugene O'Neill
- Episode 10The Boy in the Bubble
- Episode 11The Alaska Pipeline
- Episode 12Annie Oakley
- Episode 13The Man Behind Hitler