Annie Oakley (c. 1899)
Annie Oakley (1860 – 1926) was a renowned markswoman. She rose to fame after defeating the famous deadeye Frank Butler at 15-year-old. Before he hired her as a second-in-command, he proposed to the young sniper and asked her to marry him. When Oakley’s status overtook her husband’s, he was happy to serve Oakley instead. When she appeared in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Oakley became an international icon of the rough American lifestyle. Glass balls, card games, and shooting a cigarette off her husband’s lips were among Oakley’s specialties. A “very bright young girl” according to Queen Victoria, she was also known as “Little Sure Shot” by Chief Sitting Bull.
Annie Oakley 1899
Butch Cassidy (1900)
Robert LeRoy Parker (1866 – 1908), best known as Butch Cassidy, was an Old West legend. He was a romantic outlaw with fantastic tales that overshadowed his actual stature. John D. Barton from Utah State University said that Cassidy and his associates pulled off the longest string of successful bank and railway robberies in the history of the American West around the turn of the century. With his “Wild Buch” by his side, Cassidy poses in this classic photo taken by Fort Worth’s John Swartz in 1900. Cassidy led the notorious group consisting of Tall Texan, Laura Bullion, Kid Curry, Elzy Lay, and Bob Meeks.
Butch Cassidy 1900
