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Annie Oakley Comes To Watertown

Annie Oakley Comes To Watertown

Lord, Garman

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1544650698
ISBN13: 9781544650692
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 11 2017
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Annie Oakley is a work of historical fiction built around the 1897 visit of Annie, as a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, to the small rural city of Watertown in Northern New York. The device used by the author, a mystery crime writer and a Watertown native himself, is to have Annie solve a crime during her visit. The visit was real, the crime fictional, although no more than a small diversion from the body of the narrative itself. The book's real point is to give the reader a taste of the flavor of the late nineteenth century, especially in small town America, and of traveling extravaganzas of the day like Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and also to detail Annie Oakley's highly unusual life, so different from the conventional contemporary mythology of shows like Annie Get Your Gun, before and after her Watertown visit. It is said that Annie Get Your Gun star Ethel Merman was asked why Annie's real life would not have made for a much more interesting stage play, her response was It would, but then the show would be a melodrama and I'd be a wreck.

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