Items related to Annie Oakley: Wild West Sharpshooter (Primary Sources...
Annie Oakley: Wild West Sharpshooter (Primary Sources of Famous People in American History) - Softcover
Synopsis
As a famous sharpshooter performing in Wild West Shows in the late 1800s, legend has it that Annie Oakley never missed a shot! She proved that women could shoot guns just as well as men, and championed the rights of women and American Indians. In lively, easy-to-read text, this book uses primary source materials to introduce young readers to this fascinating woman.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From Booklist
Reviewed with Kathleen Collins' Jesse James.
Gr. 2-4. Aimed at very young researchers, this new series has the most unwieldy of names: Primary Sources of Famous People in American History. Yet the books are written in the simplest of language, and the design features big print with lots of white space, many contemporaneous pictures, and an abbreviated time line and glossary. Annie Oakley's colorful history is captured more in the photographs than in the basic text, but it does cover her hardscrabble early life; her tour with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (where she met her husband and manager, Frank Butler); and her devotion to Native American rights and teaching women to shoot. Jesse James follows the same format. Kids will be attracted, but the book is less successful, perhaps because it is harder to explain the allure of robbery and murder in simple terms. GraceAnne DeCandido
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherRosen Classroom
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0823943011
- ISBN 13 9780823943012
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantIf you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you!
Create a Want
