Greenville Public Library
Bill Booker Lectures on Annie Oakley 

The third lecture in a series by Bill Booker is scheduled for Tuesday July 2nd at 2:00 p.m. in the Reference Room of the Greenville Public Library.  The title is “Daughter of a Gun - Our Annie.”   Bill’s lectures are always insightful, entertaining, and full of little-known facts and anecdotes. In Bill’s words... 

She came from a large family, born in northwestern Darke County, she had a superior mother, a natural father and two step fathers....and just one brother, the man who first taught her how to hold a gun....and how to aim high and hit the mark. 

The lectures span her 66 years, smooth out some facets of the usually unknown Annie....and turn some truths right side up. She used her unusually sharp eyesight to make utterly clean kills of all manner of game which she sold first in Greenville and then as far away as Cincinnati where she met her future husband, himself a sharp shooter, Frank Butler. 

As part of the famous Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and Congress of Roughriders, she crisscrossed the country and made exhibition trips to Europe where she performed before the major crowned heads of government.  There is more to tell than time can allow.... Little Miss Sure Shot - that was Annie.