Miss Annie Oakley showed that she would be a formidable opponent in a match at clay pigeons, as she smashed one after another with great precision, and sometimes under the difficult situation of turning her back to the trap, and of laying down her gun and picking it up when the clay saucer was liberated. With the rifle Miss Lillian Smith, the "California Girl," also showed great skill, her best feat being the hitting of a ball made to revolve at the end of a string, like the sham birds at fairs. Pigeon shooters and others may be interested in learning that both of these ladies, as well as Buffalo Bill himself, use the Schultze powder.
Title: Untitled [Miss Annie Oakley showed that she would be a formidable]
Source: Buffalo Bill Center of the West; MS6, William F. Cody collection, MS6.3681.009.02 (Oakley scrapbook)
Date: 1887
Keywords: Ammunition Firearms Sharpshooters Targets (Shooting) Traveling exhibitions
People: Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 Smith, Lillian Frances, 1871-1930
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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