Untitled [The scores made by Miss Annie Oakley] Johnston, Jeremy Christianson, Frank Seefeldt, Douglas, 1964- This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation. 2018 William F. Cody Archive University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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Untitled [The scores made by Miss Annie Oakley] Evening News New York, NY [1887] Buffalo Bill Center of the West; MS6, William F. Cody collection MS6.3681.003.08 (Oakley scrapbook)

Texts Newspapers Firearms Sharpshooters Shooting contests Targets (Shooting) Traveling exhibitions Bogardus, Adam H. Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 Weakly, Laura K. Initial encoding Clark, L. Hanna, Sam Kinnen, Anna Roberts, Briana Proofreading University of Nebraska-Lincoln Crowdsourcing (transcribe.unl.edu) Transcription Evening News NY.

The scores made by Miss Annie Oakley this week were as follows: Monday, Jack Brewer and Annie Oakley, at Pastime Park, Philadelphia, 50 birds each, Hurlingham rules, 50 yards boundry, Brewer killed 45, Oakley 30. Tuesday, clay pigeon match, 50 birds each, $50, between Miss Oakley and Louis Goff, near Morristown, Oakley 46, Goff 41. Thursday, at Point Breeze Race Track, Philadelphia, John L. Brewer and Oakley, 50 birds each, Hurlingham rules, Brewer 44, Oakley 43. Oakley only used one ounce shot, and this is said to be the highest score ever made under such conditions. When Brewer beat Bogardus, at Pastime park, same conditions, the score was: Brewer 43, Bogardus 42.