Annie Oakley had not been born in the West, and she had not lived there. But for
many years she had certainly looked likea cowgirl, and she had ridden a horse
and shot better than most any Westerner, of either sex, while performing in Wild
West shows. To call her, then, a 'Western legend' does not miss the mark…even if
she was too good, and too good a shot, to shoot anyone.