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And we continue with our American stories.

Annie Oakley was a shooting star, a magician whose magic wand was a gun.

Right-handed, left-handed on a horse through a mirror. She couldn't miss. In a time when women were only expected to fire up the oven,

Annie Oakley fired her way to fame as the world's greatest sharpshooter. In her personal life, she was a sharpshooter as well.

He was devoted to her marriage and to her faith.

Here to tell the story is Ashley Lubinsky.

Ashley is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms,

the former curator in charge of the Cody Firearms Museum,

and president of the Gun Code LLC. Here's Ashley.

One of the most famous women in American history has become the subject of legend and speculation and adoration.

Annie Oakley, who is a famed Marx woman that lived in the late 19th through the 20th century, is known for a lot of different colorful history.

And she actually comes from really humble

beginnings. She was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in Dark County, Ohio, and pretty much

tragedy followed a lot of her younger life. Her father passed away around the time she was

eight, and as a means to support her mother and her siblings,

she started hunting.

And she would be so successful with the hunting

that at some point she would pay off her mother's mortgage.

So she definitely had a lot of skill,

even for a very young woman.

But as she's doing this, there are a lot of other things that go on in her life

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