The twelfth Lost Diary about this famous entertainer. Set from 1885 the year in which Annie joined Buffalo Bills Wild West Show to 1893 when Annie reached the high point of her career at the Chicago Worlds Fair. Annie Oakley s rags-to-riches story is engaging and exciting. She began shooting to provide for the family pot and was soon selling her surplus game to hotels in Cincinnati. Within two years she had made enough money to repay the family mortage! Her name is closely linked with other celebrities of the Old West most notably Buffalo Bill and the great leader of the Sioux nation, Chief Sitting Bull who addopted her as his daughter into the Sioux nation and gave her the nickname Little Sureshot. She was the star attraction in Buffalo Bills Wild West Circus in 1885. A role-model for young women in the American West she was also widely admired by boys and young men for her shooting skills.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Clive Dickinson has worked widely in both fiction and non-fiction children's publishing for twenty years. His novels for Collins include the much loved `Knickers, My Secret Notebook Aged 7/8/9' and `The Lost Diary of Tutankhamen's Mummy,' from the `faction' series.