In the late s and early s, ushers traditionally punched a hole or two in free tickets to the circus, theater or sporting events in order to differentiate them from those of paying customers when tabulating receipts. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. Butler missed one of his shots. This amazing girl entranced Butler, and the two shooters began a courtship that resulted in marriage on August 23, Annie and Frank Butler first appeared in a show together May 1, It was at this time that Annie adopted the stage name of Oakley.
Off stage, she was always Mrs. Frank Butler. For the next few years, the Butlers traveled across the country giving shooting exhibitions with their dog, George, as an integral part of the act. At a March performance in St. Although Sitting Bull was still a political prisoner at Fort Yates, he was in town for an appearance, and had arranged to meet Oakley. They became fast friends. Until this time either Butler had received top billing or they had shared the limelight.
However, with the Wild West, Oakley was the star. Oakley and Butler prospered with the Wild West and remained with the show for seventeen years. When the show opened that May, Oakley was the subject of considerable press due to her shooting skills and presence.
She married fellow marksman Frank Butler in and would later become a star attraction for Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show for years, renowned for unparalleled shooting tricks. A revered global figure, Oakley retired in and died in Ohio on November 3, She is remembered as one of the leading women of the American West. Both Moses' father and her stepfather died when she was a child, and she went to live at the Darke County Infirmary, where she received schooling and sewing instruction while helping in the care of orphaned children.
She returned to living with her mother and her second stepfather in her early teens, when she was able to help the family by hunting game for a grocery store. She earned so much from her skills that by the time she was 15, Moses was able to pay off the mortgage on her mother's home. After beating him in a Thanksgiving shooting competition, the following year, Moses married Frank E.
Butler, a top shooter and vaudeville performer. The two embarked on a union that would last more than half a century. They began working together professionally in , after Butler's male partner fell ill and Moses took his place. Throughout her career she is thought to have taught more than 15, women how to use a gun as not only a form of physical and mental exercise but so they could defend themselves. In , Oakley and her husband were involved in an automobile crash that left Annie requiring a brace on her leg.
Despite this, she was back performing just a year and a half later. Oakley's health began to decline from and died the following year at the age of 66 from pernicious anaemia. Butler was so heartbroken by the loss of his wife that he refused to eat and passed away himself just over two weeks later. He was buried next to her in Ohio.
Her incomplete autobiography was sold to comedian Frank Stone. Annie Oakley has been portrayed several times since her death including the highly fictionalised film 'Annie Oakley' starring Barbara Stanwyck. Annie Oakley.
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