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The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley is the first interpretive biography of Annie Oakley. Overcoming poverty, prejudice, physical setbacks, and her own shyness, Oakley became a star in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. In the first chapter, Glenda Riley recounts Oakley's childhood, her development as a shooter, and her marriage to Frank Butler. Subsequent chapters present Oakley's life - as entertainer, sport shooter, lady, and western woman. In the final chapter, Riley assesses changes in the interpretation of Oakley's image since her death in 1926.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
To provide a factual and intimate biography of Annie Oakley, the legendary female sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, Riley attempts to place her seemingly mythical subject firmly into historical, cultural, and sociological contexts. While faithfully recounting Oakley's personal and professional chronology and impressive list of accomplishments, the author also offers an interpretive view of Annie's highly successful effort to reconcile her public image as a resourceful and athletic western woman with her private perception of herself as a genteel Victorian lady and a model wife. What emerges is a multidimensional portrait of an entertainer and a businesswoman whose enduring fame and popularity both reflected and defied the conventions of her era. Unlike many previous Oakley biographers, Riley moves well beyond the realm of folklore, producing an insightful and original account of the life, the times, and the significance of a uniquely American heroine. ~--Margaret Flanagan
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Riley's study of the legendary Western icon Annie Oakley (1860-1926), actually born in Ohio and infrequently in the West during her lifetime, explores her life as "entertainer, sport shooter, lady, and western woman." This somewhat interpretative assessment focuses more on the latter three "dimensions" of Oakley's career than most biographies, while at the same time providing a solid, generally reliable account of Oakley's associations with "the Show Business," especially Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West exhibition. Riley has corrected numerous misconceptions regarding Oakley and her times, providing one of the more trustworthy, balanced studies to date (comparable to Shirl Kasper's Annie Oakley, 1992). Not found in other biographies is an analysis of distortions of the Oakley legend since her death, and a discussion of how sensibilities in various periods have colored depictions of the famous sharpshooter. There is a useful annotated essay on sources, though, in keeping with the series, there are no source citations in the text. Clearly well researched and stylistically straightforward (though somewhat spiritless), Riley's book is the best basic introduction to Oakley available. All public and academic collections. D. B. Wilmeth; Brown University
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Those who know of Annie Oakley largely through film and theater portrayals by Barbara Stanwyck, Ethel Merman, or Betty Hutton will find a more nuanced and complete biography of "Little Sure Shot" (as Chief Sitting Bull called her) at the hands of Riley. Author of Western studies such as A Place To Grow: Women in the American West (Harlan Davidson, 1992), the author here provides not only a biography of Oakley but also an evaluation of her legend and influence-a woman who sought economic equality and recognition for women in a male-dominated profession, but who, as a proper Victorian lady, opposed suffrage for women. Riley's is the latest and most scholarly in a long line of biographies, including Shirl Kasper's excellent study, Annie Oakley (LJ 3/15/92).-Nicholas C. Burckel, Washington Univ. Libs., St. Louis (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.