In    teens she won a shooting match in Cincinnati against 

  well-known Frank E. Butler.   were later married

and toured the circuses and music halls before joining Buffalo Bill's Show in 1885.

Audiences loved Annie and she  soon a huge star. Her skill was

extraordinary.  She could hit a playing card at 10 metres end on, or knock the ash

  a cigarette held in her husband's lips, or else's;

she  the same trick in Berlin on Crown Prince William of Germany.

Annie   shoot the flames off a spinning wheel of candles, and even

perform when lying  the back of a galloping horse.

Mrs. Oakley   remembered by millions today as the subject of

  of the great post-war Broadway musicals, Irving Berlin's

'Annie Get Your Gun'.