Central Kansas Library System

In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated prote�ge�e, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...

Focuses on the childhood of the famous American sharpshooter.