The happy couple toured around the country, and Butler continued to perform as a marksman. Oakley acted as his assistant and held up items for Butler to shoot. She would also do some shooting. From that moment, Oakley became part of the act. Paul, Minnesota. The couple performed as partners, but Oakley quickly rose to fame. Butler chose to support his wife and work as her assistant and manager.
Oakley became the star of the show. During these years, they traveled around the country and abroad. They also toured in Spain, Italy, and France.
Over the course of her career, Oakley showed people around the world that women were capable and able to handle firearms and even out-shoot men. She encouraged women to learn how to use pistols that could be kept in purses in order to protect themselves. She was passionate about empowering women, and helping children. Two years later, Oakley found herself in a legal battle. Other newspapers across the country also began to print the same story, however the report was entirely false.
She and her husband were also living in New Jersey at the time, therefore she was nowhere near Chicago when the crime took place. Frank was ten years older than Annie. Born in Ireland in , he worked his way to the United States in He worked at many odd jobs, including helping to manage a traveling dog-and-pony show.
By his early twenties, he was an accomplished exhibition shooter and enjoyed some success in variety theater with a shooting act. In , he became an American citizen.
By nature, he was a gentle and happy man who made friends easily. He did not smoke, drink, or gamble, and the poverty in which he was born had taught him to be hard-working and frugal. Like Annie, he was generous to those he thought wereless fortunate than he. Frank also had a romantic flair and a sense of showmanship. He wrote many poems for Annie, and he taught her how to express her personality on stage and in the arena.
His marriage with Annie was a partnership in the best sense of the word. He was never jealous of her stardom. He never seemed embarrassed to be known as "Mr. Annie Oakley", and his friends were her friends. She was born in in Blair County, Pennsylvania. In , at the age of 16, she married Jacob Mosey, who was 33 years her senior. By , Susan and Jacob had nine children. Catherine died at seven months old, and an unnamed boy was stillborn leaving them with seven living children.
In the winter of , Jacob was driving a team of horses into town to purchase supplies and to have corn and wheat ground at the mill. He was caught in a snowstorm. He fell ill and died in March at the age of Note: Jacob gave his age as 61 in the census. This means he died at age The tombstone that Annie bought years later, however, says that he died at Widowed with seven children, Susan was forced to move to a smaller home.
In , Susan married Daniel Brumbaugh, who was 22 years older than she. He was a widower whose children were married and gone from home. They welcomed the birth of Emily in , but one year later, Daniel died leaving Susan alone with another child and no money.
Susan continued working in home health care. With the help of the older children, they struggled for four years. In , Susan married Joseph Shaw, who was 30 years her senior. Joseph had a little money so they were able to build a house.
Susan now had a place for all her children to call home. Joseph died in after 13 years of marriage. Susan was 55 years old. Little is known about Susan from her birth to the time she married Jacob. The prosperity of the year marriage seemed to be the seven living children. The next marriage to Brumbaugh lasted only three years but produced another child, and the last marriage to Shaw produced a home and a little income.
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When the Wild West returned to Europe in , Oakley had become a seasoned performer and earned star billing. The troupe stayed in Paris for a six-month exhibition, and then traveled to other regions of France, Italy, and Spain. Oakley proved especially popular with women, and Buffalo Bill made the most of her fame to demonstrate that shooting was neither detrimental, nor too intense for women and children.
During this period, Butler signed a contract as a representative for the Union Metallic Cartridge Company in Connecticut. This was a position that allowed both Butler and Oakley to make endorsements for the company and to continue their shooting exhibitions. Finally, in , the couple retired from the arena and settled down in Cambridge, Maryland.
While in Cambridge, the Butlers welcomed a new member into their family, their dog Dave. Named for a friend, Dave Montgomery of the comedy team of Montgomery and Stone, Dave was to be a constant companion to the Butlers. In , they moved to Pinehurst, North Carolina. That same year, Buffalo Bill Cody died. Annie Oakley wrote a touching eulogy for Cody, and the passing of a golden era. The United States was pulled into World War I in , and Oakley offered to raise a regiment of woman volunteers to fight in the war.
She had made the same offer during the Spanish-American War; neither time was it accepted. She also volunteered to teach marksmanship to the troops.
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