Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses was born on l3 August 1860 and was one of the most phenomenal shots in the history of firearms. She first gained national attention when she won a shooting match in Cincinnati against a crack shot named Frank E. Butler, whom she later* married. Until 1*884 she and her husband made tours of vaudeville shows and circuses! In that year Oakley auditioned for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill was immediately smitten with this pretty but shy twenty-four-year-old woman who could sight with a hand mirror and shoot backward as her husband threw glass balls in the air. (She could also shoot them from the back of a galloping pony.) At thirty paces she could shoot the thin edge of a playing card, a dime tossed in the air, or the lit end of a cigarette. She toured with...