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Shooting For The Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley by Stephen Krensky and Bernie Fuchs, 2001 (5 stars) start AO-Krensky search at AOR

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Annie Oakley's father's military service
The article states that her father, a Quaker, fought in the War of 1812, but died from the effects of exposure in 1866. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that he served in the American Civil War, which ended in the year before his death?

There is a reference, in the article, to his military record. Would somebody who knows more about this than I please make any necessary corrections. This also begs the question of why would a Quaker be fighting in a war anyway, but that is not really germane to Annie Oakley's biography.

You may delete this comment once the necessary changes have been made.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Josh-Levin@ieee.org (talk • contribs) 20:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Further, it states he died in 1866 at the age of 66 so we can assume he was born circa 1800. This makes his service in the war of 1812 not impossible given that the state Annie was born is in Ohio, which participated in the war. Though it warrants further citation and discussion.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.244.119.163 (talk • contribs) 03:27, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Annie Oakley and Kaiser Wilhelm II
The popular story about the encounter of the two has, unfortunately, so far not been corroborated through contemporary sources. Neither the very broad press-coverage of Annie's tour with Buffalo Bill nor biographies of the German Kaiser (e.g., by John Röhl) contain the slightest indication that they ever met. If I should be mistaken, and someone can prove it, this source should be quoted. The citation given in the article is no solid source. KMKreis 18:34, 03 June, 2010 (CET) —Preceding unsigned comment added by KMKreis (talk • contribs) 16:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

I just completed a round of correspondence with the current President of the Annie Oakley Center Foundation at the Garst Museum. From her research through contemporary sources and supported by her speaking to the previous director of the Garst, she can find no evidence that the encounter occurred - the most that seems to have happened is a newspaper reporter with the Philadelphia Public Ledger invented the incident around 1918 to support anti-German sentiment during WWI (the "asking for another shot" story). No contemporary news articles from the time period the event is said to have occurred have been located, and Annie's Autobiography talks about her time in Germany but does not mention such an event. All that said, it's difficult to prove a negative (i.e., that an event didn't happen) but in the absence of some kind of evidence that this encounter actually happened beyond a claim on a Wayback Machine version of a website that never had a citation of its own, I recommend that this incident be changed to state that although the story has been around for quite some time, it is most likely apocryphal as no evidence of its occurrence has been found. Piripero (talk) 17:01, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Gunmen of the American Old West
Per recent edit recategorizing, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject American Old West. --Chaswmsday (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Just a few facts.
These are German Baptist Brethren (Dunkard) names Wise, Cripe, Brumbaugh, Wagoner, Studebaker. These are names closely related to Annie. Also, Jacob Moses and his wife Susannah Wise were of German blood and not a bit English. The history books got this wrong. it's also Dunkard instead of Quaker.

This article did seem find He Wolf was Jacob Boos (Boose) or (Beus). Therefore, Elizabeth Diefendall would be She Wolf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diefendall (talk • contribs) 19:17, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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Gail Davis TV show
I'm editing the line about the Gail Davis TV show to reflect that other than the name and the fact she's a sharpshooter, the character as portrayed bears no similarity at all to the real Annie Oakley. Elsquared (talk) 03:11, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 her full name was Maria Salomea Sklodowska she had 3 sisters and 1 brother, her parents names were Bronislawa Sklodowska, and Wladslaw Sklodowska. Marie Curie was from Warsaw,Russia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.250.183.16 (talk) 19:26, 30 October 2021 (UTC)