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Can you guess who this is?

This remarkable woman was descended from English Quakers and born in the USA. Phoebe Ann Moses was born on August 13, 1860. Her incredible skill at her later chose career first became apparent at the age of eight.

Throughout her life, she activated for equal pay for women, and she and her husband gave sums to charities and orphanages.  As a child, her skills were such that she was able to help her mother pay off the mortgage on their farmstead from the money she earned.

She was married for fifty years to Frank, who died within weeks of her death, having refused to eat and experiencing deep grief at her passing. After their deaths it was revealed that all their asses had been given to relatives or donated to charities.

Throughout her life she was an international celebrity in a traditionally male-dominated sport. She met with royalty throughout Europe and the British Empire. At one stage of her life, she spent six years suing over 55 US newspapers for libel, eventually forcing William Randolph Hearst to pay her $27,000 – ($655,000 in modern terms).

Chief Sitting Bull considered her his adopted daughter, believing her skills must have had a supernatural origin. Her Sioux name was given to her personally by Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota Sioux Nation – it was ‘Watanya Cicilla’. She once pledged to create a regiment of fifty females to assist in the fighting of the Spanish American war.

A vast collection of her personal possessions, performance memorabilia, are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio

She was instrumental in creating a cultural image of the self-sufficient American woman – which was resurrected as recently as 1999 I ‘Toy Story 2’.

Can you guess who she was?      Feel free to message me: Lee@connect-ed.co.nz.