Edison Film of Annie Oakley

Filmed at Edison's studios in West Orange, N.J. In 1894 when this was made Annie Oakley was the most famous markswoman in the world. She toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show from 1885 to 1901. Annie was an advocate for women learning to use a gun, which she believed was a necessity for self-defense. In the fifties and sixties a western bearing her name starred Gail Davis as Annie. There was even an episode where she had to go up against the "Texas sandman." Sounds intriguing.