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In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen years with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, where she entertained Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm II, among others. Beloved by all who knew her, Oakley became a legend in her own right, and after her death achieved a new lease of fame in the musical Annie, Get Your Gun. They were cultural icons, setting the path for all that followed.--From publisher description.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company, Entertainers, Scouts (Reconnaissance), Scouts and scouting, Wild west shows, Shooters of firearms, Biography, Scharfschütze, Wild west show, Scouting (Youth activity), Scouting (Reconnaissance), Scouts (Youth organization members), Large type books, Buffalo bill, 1846-1917, Oakley, annie, 1860-1926, Entertainers, united statesPlaces
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-234) and index.
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"KINGS and potentates, and their queens and lovers, someday die and have to be entombed, interred, or consumed on splendid pyres."
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