Word: sureshot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Mrs. Annie Oakley ("Little Sureshot") Butler, 66, most marked markswoman in history, at Greenville, Ohio, after long illness. She had directed that they cremate her remains; bury her ashes in Darke County, Ohio, where she began handling firearms at a tender age to supply her widowed mother with game...
...hundred thousand dollars worth of mementos she collected, none were more valuable to her than the personal effects willed to her by Sitting Bull, famed Sioux chief, who named her "Watanic Cicilia" (Little Sureshot). She could hit pennies tossed in the air or larger discs (in the centre or on the edge as requested) ; shoot holes in playing cards or tickets fluttering in the air; stand on one foot, throw three eggs aloft, hit each with her rifle before it squashed...