Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, genuine and authentic, unique and original,

Wild West presents to you the Pearless Little Show Shot Miss Annie Oakley.

Let's talk about Annie Oakley, but first let's place her in history.

In 1881, the obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle, though we know it's the most the thirds,

but the only one that was found in the history was installed in New York City, near the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson solved their first case together in a study in Scarlet,

a little circus called Barnum and Bailey marketed as the greatest show on Earth had its first performance.

The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton, Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holiday took part in the shootout at the OK Corral,

the Keegan Institute. This was the year of the deaths of Boudou Queen Marie Levo,

Wild West Bad Boy Billy the Kid, and the assassination of President Garfield.

Born this year, Pablo Picasso, Anna Pavlova, and filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille.

And in 1881, probably, Annie Oakley's life changed direction in so many ways during a shooting competition

with a complete stranger named Frank Butler.

Hello, and welcome to the show. It's Beckett, it's just me today. Susan is away on vacation.

And so let us just proceed with the show. Phoebe Ann Moses, sometimes pronounced Mozy,

which is so super Wild West, I can't even believe that, was born on August 13th, 1860, the sixth daughter,

and the fifth of the seven surviving children of Jacob and Susan Moses in Dark County, Ohio.

Not the Wild West, you know, as you think about it, I mean it was the West side of Ohio.

Think more like Laura Ingalls's house in the 1970s TV show, it's a little house.

In the country outside of a village, like Walnut Grove, in this case it was Woodland, Ohio.

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