Born in rural Ohio in 1860, Annie Moses rose from poverty to become Annie Oakley, the diminutive star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show who could outshoot any man. She comes fully to life in this rousing biography by Walter Havighurst, the respected historian of the Old Northwest. In her probing introduction to this Bison Book edition, Christine Bold considers the striking incongruities, the symbolic meanings, of Annie Oakley's life and career. "Achieving access to documents and surviving relatives and acquaintances of Annie Oakley, Havighurst minutely tracked the movements of the woman and the show that defined her. . . . the vast canvas that he painted [is] fascinating in its detail and its sweep"—Christine Bold (Christine Bold) "Walter Havighurst has done full justice to [Annie Oakley's] story. . . . he has included an account of Buffalo Bill's famous Wild West show in which 'Missie,' as Cody called her, was a star for seventeen years. . . . I don't see how this book could have been improved upon."— Saturday Review of Literature ( Saturday Review of Literature ) "Delightfully written and well illustrated. Highly recommended."— Library Journal ( Library Journal ) Christine Bold, an assistant professor of English at the University of Guelph, Canada, is the author of Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960 (1987).