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When newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst threatened her stellar reputation with a scandalous story, the little lady with the big gun turned to lawsuits.

The story—a folktale, really— features a wisp of a girl in a broad-brimmed Stetson taking careful aim with her rifle and shooting a cigarette from the mouth of Crown Prince Wilhelm, future emperor of pre–World War Germany.

In fact, it happened almost exactly that way, with only a few minor course corrections for accuracy.

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By November she was hardly a girl but an attractive, self-possessed woman of And she didn’t exactly shoot the cigarette out of his mouth. The crown prince had heard of her remarkable shooting skills when the show in which she was performing—Buffalo Bill’s Wild West—crossed the Atlantic to perform in Great Britain earlier that year.

When the Wild West wrapped up, Oakley and husband Frank Butler had continued on to the Continent to see the sights and put on shooting exhibitions. Attending their performance i New Annie Oakley artifacts on display at lecture ZYK