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RELATED STORY: 8 Reasons Why Revolvers Are a Great Choice for New Shootersįrom outlaws to lawmen, inventors to exhibitionists, there are a multitude of revolvers associated with Western figures.When Colt’s patent expired in the mid-1850s, it opened the door for rigorous competition from other manufacturers, such as Smith & Wesson and Remington. Many young designers were chomping at the bit to break into the revolver market. However, while Colt ignited the fire, he was not alone. Patent 9430X began the arms race to develop revolver technology. His first revolving patent was granted in the United States on February 25, 1836.

Samuel Colt, a young eccentric, first patented the revolver in 1835 in England. In fact, it was not even developed in the region. This piece of revolving technology does not predate American expansion into the West.

RELATED STORY: 5 Titans Who Influenced Revolvers, Ammo & Handgun Shooting.

Oftentimes, old west revolvers themselves can be about as famous as the legendary men and women who carried them. The six-shooter is an iconic symbol of not only the historic West, but also Western mythology and popular culture. The revolver is to the West as apple pie is to America. But Oakley continued to perform until the couple died, both in November of 1926. Oakley and Butler later left Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1901. It is believed she ordered three of these revolvers. She shot many different types of firearms during her lifetime, including this Smith & Wesson No. Butler faded into the background and helped manage Oakley’s career. This marked a turning point in Oakley’s career and a shift in dynamic for the couple. The pair joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1885. She initially hunted to support her family, but by the age of 15, she had paid off her mother’s mortgage and won a shooting competition against acclaimed exhibition shooter and future husband Frank Butler. However, she was reunited with her family and found her calling. After her father passed away, she was sent to work for a family who terribly mistreated her. Her younger life was plagued by misfortune. 3 Phoebe Ann Moses (1860-1926), better known as Annie Oakley, was born in Ohio. Buffalo Bill essentially laid the foundation for Western films and the mythology that we know and associate as intrinsically American.Īnnie Oakley’s Smith & Wesson No. This gun, originally Yellow Hair’s, was taken by Cody.Ĭody used a plethora of revolvers for his stage performances, but this Remington is representative of another chapter in his story. On July 17, 1876, at the Battle of Warbonnet Creek, Buffalo Bill killed Cheyenne warrior Yellow Hair. There are many guns associated with his stage life however, this Remington Army revolver reflects his time as a soldier. He also became the subject of dime novelist Ned Buntline’s stories, performed in stage shows and ultimately created Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Cody earned his nickname hunting bison to procure meat while working for the Goddard Brothers on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He served in the 7th Volunteer Kansas Cavalry during the Civil War and scouted for the United States Army during the Plains Indian Wars. While he is remembered as an international celebrity, his journey into the West began when he moved to “Bleeding Kansas” in the 1850s. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) is one of the most iconic showman in Western history. (Note that the ivory grips are not original to the firearms.) While this pair belonged to Samuel Colt, he did not have them for long, since he died a short two years later from gout.Īfter his death, his name would live on as a Western legend with the development of the Peacemaker, the firearm of choice for outlaws, lawmen and showmen.īuffalo Bill’s Remington Army William F. These cased Colt Model 1851 Navy revolvers were engraved by famous Colt engraver Gustave Young. His original revolver, the Paterson, was adopted by the Texas Rangers and inspired Samuel Walker to convince Colt to make a larger-bore revolver named after him. However, his company was plagued by financial troubles. He developed the first revolving firearm patent in the United States. However, it’s a perfect way to start off this list because his revolver idea led to the development of the handgun that “won the West.”Ĭolt was a controversial and eccentric character during his lifetime. Samuel Colt’s Model 1851s Samuel Colt (1814-1862) is not necessarily an Old West legend in the traditional sense, especially since he died in 1862.

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Sharpshooter Annie Oakley holds a shotgun in a portrait from the mid-1880s. The larger-than-life legend who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show has inspired TV shows, movies, and musicals—and many conflicting accounts of her life. Photograph Via Underwood Archives/Getty

The True Story of Annie Oakley, Legendary Sharpshooter

As a star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, the 19th-century icon inspired TV shows, movies, and musicals. But her fame also has led to conflicting accounts of her life.

— By Emily Martin | May 31, 2022 | History & Culture | Explainer

Legend has it that Annie Oakley was such a skilled sharpshooter that she singlehandedly foiled train robberies, shot bears and panthers, and killed a wolf that already had her in its grip—or so claimed one 1887 novel based on her life titled The Rifle Queen.

Oakley’s fame as one of the most skilled gunslingers of her lifetime inspired many tall tales. (The wolf story, for example, never happened.) Some of these myths live on today thanks to the 1946 Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” whose final scene depicts Oakley losing a match intentionally to protect her future husband’s ego—when in reality she won his heart by beating him in a shoot-out.

It’s difficult to separate fact from fiction about Oakley’s life. As the star attraction of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show—a popular 19th-century act known for its romanticized portrayal of frontier life—Oakley showcased her talents on stages across the world for 17 years. She astounded audiences by shooting cigarettes from her husband’s lips, riddling playing cards in mid-air, and—her go-to trick—shooting a target behind her back while spotting it from a mirror.

Oakley’s reputation was largely crafted by her husband Frank Butler and the promoters of the Wild West Show. But some of Oakley’s own accounts of her life, and those of her descendants, still remain. Here’s the true story of the sharpshooter’s life.

Early Life

For starters, Oakley wasn’t the gunslinger’s real name: Born on August 13, 1860, as Phoebe Ann Moses—which the family sometimes spelled Mozee, Mosey, or Mauzy—she started using the stage name around the time she joined the Wild West Show in 1885.

Instead of the Wild West, Oakley was originally from Darke County, Ohio, and she had a rough start. After her father passed away when she was five years old, Oakley had to help provide for her family. Sue Macy writes in National Geographic’s Bull’s-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley that Annie helped feed the family by making traps to catch game before taking up her father’s rifle.

Oakley shoots a rifle over her shoulder using a hand mirror in a photo taken circa 1885. The trick was one of her favorites and it frequently impressed crowds. She was skilled with rifles from a young age after she first picked one up to hunt food for her family. Photograph Via Bettmann/Getty

Annie would tell the story of her first hunt many times, and even though details like what type of animal she killed changed over the years, she was certain she brought it down with a single shot.

“I don’t know how I acquired the skill,” she once said, according to Macy. “I suppose I was born with it.”

Tragedy struck again when Oakley’s stepfather died in 1870. Struggling to make ends meet, her mother sent some of her children to live with neighbors. A local farmer took Oakley into his home to help care for his children. Despite his promise that she’d have time for school and hunting, however, it quickly turned into indentured servitude.

She managed to escape and ultimately returned home to her mother as a teen. That’s when she started to regularly sell her kills to the local grocer and hotels, earning enough to pay off the mortgage on her mother’s house.

Her mastery of shooting became her career and even led her to meet her husband, fellow sharpshooter Frank E. Butler, in 1875. Oakley was visiting her sister in Cincinnati when she was invited to a shooting match with Butler.

Both Oakley and Butler hit every pigeon released from the trap, until Butler’s final shot fell beyond the boundary line, awarding Oakley the win. Soon after, the two were married and began performing together.

The Star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

In 1885, Oakley and Butler joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, which would launch her to international fame. Oakley earned her spot in the company by hitting every clay pigeon Butler had launched in the air during a shooting practice.

Butler and Oakley traveled all over the U.S. with the Wild West Show company. The show, created in 1883 by Buffalo Bill, or William F. Cody, was an outdoor extravaganza of the fictionalized Wild West, including reenactments of cowboys battling Indians, shooting expositions, and skits showing off roping and horse riding. (Cody would later publicly renounce some of the show’s harmful depictions of Native Americans.)

Oakley quickly became the show’s main attraction since many audience members were stunned by the combination of her sharpshooting skills paired with her petite frame⁠. And she gained international renown in 1887 when the company performed at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in London.

Oakley was billed as a headliner of the show, which the Queen and her son, Edward, the Prince of Wales, attended. Tales of Edward inviting the shooter to his box after the show have been corroborated by reports of the encounter, in which the prince described Oakley as a “wonderful little girl.”

Oakley and Butler soon branched out to give private exhibitions to European royalty before rejoining the Western show in 1889. Oakley even shot a cigarette out of German Prince Wilhelm’s hand—although not his mouth as some legends have it.

The couple finally left the Western show when Oakley was injured in a 1901 train accident. However, she continued to appear at exhibitions until she officially retired at 53.

An All-female Regiment of the U.S. Army

Beyond her iconic sharpshooting, Oakley was known for her volunteer and philanthropic work. Bessie Edwards, Oakley’s great grand-niece and cofounder of the Annie Oakley Foundation, writes in the foreword of National Geographic’s photobiography that Oakley donated time and money to tuberculosis patients, orphans, and young women seeking higher education.

Oakley was also passionate about teaching women how to shoot for sport and protection, and she’s thought to have taught more than 15,000 women to shoot over the years through free classes.

Oakley teaches women how to shoot circa 1918. She spent two hours each morning teaching free classes when she lived in Pinehurst, North Carolina, in the early 1910s. Photograph Via Bettmann/Getty

“I think every woman should learn the use of firearms,” she once wrote, according to Macy. “I would like to see every woman know how to handle [firearms] as naturally as they know how to handle babies.”

In 1898 she sent a letter to President William McKinley before the Spanish American War broke out and volunteered to organize a regiment of 50 American female sharpshooters—even though women were not allowed to serve in the U.S. military at the time. Her offer was denied by the War Department.

When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, Oakley again wrote a letter to the Secretary of War, offering to train a women’s division: “I can guarantee a regiment of women for home protection,” she wrote, “every one of whom can and will shoot if necessary.”

The secretary did not take her up on her offer, but Oakley still helped in the war efforts by giving shooting demonstrations at U.S. Army posts. She even trained her dog, Dave, to sniff out cash donations for the Red Cross, which people wrapped in handkerchiefs and hid for the dog to find—earning him the nickname Dave the Red Cross Dog.

Protecting Her Reputation From Tall Tales

Oakley worked furiously to build her reputation—and protect it from the gossip and libel that often accompanied her fame.

In 1890, newspapers worldwide reprinted a French report that she had died in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Oakley telegrammed reassurances from England, where she was on vacation and very much alive, and demanded that newspapers retract the report. Evidently, Macy writes, the paper had misspelled the name of the actual deceased, a singer named Annie Oatley.

Then, in 1903, two Chicago newspapers reported that Oakley was locked up in a local jail after pleading guilty to stealing a man’s pants to get money for drugs. The story was picked up nationwide. To set the record straight, Oakley wrote to the newspapers saying she had not been in Chicago for months. Most printed retractions when an investigation revealed that an actress with the stage name Any Oakley was the true culprit—but that wasn’t enough for Oakley.

She filed libel lawsuits against 55 newspapers and spent much of the next seven years testifying in court. According to Macy, she won or settled 54 of the cases and came away with more than a quarter of a million dollars.

Legacy

Oakley was soon considering other career moves, like starring in movies or writing a memoir, but her health declined rapidly after a car accident in 1922 left her with a permanent leg injury. In 1926, she was diagnosed with a blood disorder and died at 66 years old in Greenville, Ohio. Her husband, who had been visiting North Carolina for the winter, died 18 days later.

In spite of—or perhaps due to—the conflicting accounts of her life, Oakley’s reputation has endured through the years. Her tenacity and determination have become an inspiration for many, with her likeness appearing in TV shows, movies, and musicals.

“Aim for the high mark and you will hit it,” she’s reported to have said. “No, not the first time, not the second time, and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally, you'll hit the bulls-eye of success.”

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Ikemen vampire oc: Annie Oakley

((I made these in picrew))

Since there was a lack of girls in the game I made another, this time it's the famous American marksman Annie Oakley. Here are some interesting facts about her.

1) Annie Oakley isn't her real name, it's Phoebe Ann Moses, she was nicknamed Annie by her sisters and she chose Oakley as her professional surname after the name of an Ohio town near her home.

2) She made her first shot a eight years old and she still considers it her best one

3) Annie outgunned a professional sharpshooter and later married him. Her husband, Frank Butler, drank his respecting women juice and supported his wife throughout her career

4) She was a member of Buffalo Bill's wild west traveling show. Annie would wear normal dull clothes so the audience wouldn't be distracted from her performance.

5) Big chief sitting bull considered her his adopted daughter. He sent $65 to her hotel in order to get an autographed photograph. She sent him the photo with his money and met him the next day. The native American chief insisted on adopting her and she was then christened ‘Watanya Cicilla,’ or ‘Little Sure Shot.’”

Comte made her a vampire and brought her back to the mansion. To say Napoleon and Jean where suprised was an understatement, Comte allowed Annie to bing her famous Remington Beals .32 caliber rifle with her, when asked about it Annie replied by saying she's a sharpshooter and would give a demonstration when Theo started to laugh.

Once outside, Annie took a lit cigarette out of Leo's mouth and asked Arthur to be her assistant. She told him to hold the cigarette in his mouth and stand completely still. He did as she moved 20ft back and took aim, a gun shot rung through the air and Arthur was stood, petrified with the butt of the cigarette in his mouth. Comte give her a round of applause while the others now had a case of fragile masculinity

Of course Isaac was fascinated by the physics of all this and conducts many experiments with Annie, Sebastian has never written notes as fast and Napoleon felt his pride crumble. Annie is good friends with Athena ((my other female ikevamp oc)) and they will often talk over coffee.

Now Annie still campaigns for equal rights and for women to defend themselves. She also teaches gun safety and works with Jean at the weapons shop, she's a ride or die kinda gal, once she's on your side, she's on your side for life.

((I found these pictures on bing images))

This is what she wears:

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Weird History Wednesday: Annie Oakley🤠

Born: August 13, 1860, Darke County, OH Died: November 3, 1926, Greenville, OH

Overly Quick Overview: Annie Oakley is a famous American sharpshooter associated with the American Western legend ‘Wild Bill’ or ‘Buffalo Bill’ Hickock.

1. Annie was actually born Phoebe Ann Moses. Her sister’s gave her the nickname Annie growing up, and she adopted Oakley as her stage name in adulthood.

2. She was born to a poor family in Ohio, with a disabled father who died in 1866. After his death, she began hunting to help feed the family while simultaneously honing her shooting skills. Around the age of 13 she began selling the game she killed to restaurants, eventually making enough money to pay off her family’s farm mortgage at 15.

3. Legend has it that at 15, she beat 28 year old acclaimed marksman Frank Butler at a shooting competition. Whether this is true or not is disputed by historians, since it also seems like Annie might’ve lied a bit about her age throughout the years (see facts below). Regardless of her age, the two shooters got married approximately a year after she beat Frank at the shootout.

4. She joined the circus-like traveling show ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’ with her husband in 1885. The show was an exaggerated exhibition of the fabled American West, which included many famous ex-outlaws, expert shooters, and Native Americans. The group famously performed for many overseas royal figures, including Queen Victoria and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

A promotional photo for ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’ of Annie shooting over her shoulder using a mirror

5. A year after Annie joined BBWW, the group was joined by a younger female sharpshooter name Lillian Smith. Many historians believe that Oakley was threatened by the younger competition, and fudged her age when publicly recounting her life during the show to account for it.

6. In a letter to president William McKinley, Annie offered to train a regiment of sharpshooting women to fight in the Spanish-American War. She wrote, “....in case of such an event (escalated war) I am ready to place a company of fifty lady sharpshooters at your disposal. Every one of them will be an American and as they will furnish their own arms and ammunition will be little if any expense to the government.” McKinley denied her offer, as would Woodrow Wilson later on when she made the same offer during WWI.

7. During her time in BBWW, she became close friends with Native leader Sitting Bull, who gave her the affectionate nickname ‘ watanya cicilla’. It’s loosely translated as ‘little sure shot’, which BBWW would later use in their promotional ads and which Annie is still known by to this day.

8. Annie and her husband were included in one of the first recorded commercial filmings of all time (11th of any films to be exact) exhibiting their shooting abilities. They filmed at Thomas Edison’s Black Maria studio.

Some of her famous shooting tricks included putting out the flame of a candle with her bullets, and shooting a hole through a cigar her husband was smoking on stage.

10. Annie continued shooting well into old age, mostly for philanthropic reasons to benefit women’s issues. At 60, she hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards at a North Carolina shooting competition in 1922.

#ok you know the hemingway quote write drunk edit sober #i did this post the completely backward way so please excuse all grammar issues #it's my wine wednesday with my friends on zoom and i did not expect to have to edit this much lol #weird history wednesday #annie oakley #not fundie related #here's an okey dokey annie oakley for all the veep fans

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ANNIE OAKLEY & FRANK BUTLER

Years Active: 1876--1926

ANNIE...

Both lucky and extremely talented, Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood in Ohio and become the first female superstar in what had been a male-dominated profession.

Annie was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in rural Darke County, Ohio. Her father died when she was young, and Annie was sent to the county poor farm. At age 10, she was sent to work for a family who treated her cruelly -- she called them "the wolves." Eventually, Annie ran away from them and was reunited with her mother. Annie helped support her family by shooting game in the nearby woods and selling it to a local shopkeeper. Her marksmanship paid off the mortgage on her mother's house and led her to enter a shooting match on Thanksgiving Day 1875. To Frank Butler's astonishment, Annie beat him in the competition.

FRANK...

Born in Ireland, eight-year-old Frank Butler was left in the care of an aunt while his parents searched for a better life in America. At age 13, he made his own way to the U.S. and took a variety of odd jobs to survive. Butler cleaned stables, tried glass blowing, and even managed an on-stage dog show that ended ignominiously when the fire alarm rang at a nearby station and all the dogs raced off.

Butler then developed a shooting act, banking on the growing popularity of marksmanship displays in America in the 1870s. He and his partner would perform as one of up to 18 acts in a variety show, rattling off trick shots for about 20 minutes before giving way to a ventriloquist, juggler, or magician. Butler frequently issued a challenge to any local shooting champions, and in November 1875, while he was performing in Cincinnati, someone took him up in it.

LOVE NEVER DIES...

The last opponent Butler expected was a five-foot-tall girl named Annie. "I was a beaten man the moment she appeared," Frank later said, "for I was taken off guard." His surprise continued when his young challenger scored 25 hits in 25 attempts--Butler missed his last target and with it lost the match. But he recovered quickly enough to give Annie and her family free tickets to his show, and soon he began courting her.

Butler had been married and already fathered two children. He never drank, smoked, or gambled, traits that appealed to Annie's Quaker mother. The couple was married on August 23, 1876, although Butler would later claim June 20, 1882 as the date. Perhaps Butler was not yet divorced when he first met Annie, or maybe the later date was given because Annie had lopped six years off her actual age in the midst of her rivalry with the younger sharpshooter Lillian Smith. Either way, the marriage was a happy one, lasting for some 50 years. Frank, an amateur poet, would write of his wife: "Her presence would remind you, Of an angel in the skies, And you bet I love this little girl, With the rain drops in her eyes."

Butler initially kept performing with a male stage partner while Annie tagged along. That changed on May 1, 1882, in Springfield, Ohio. Butler's partner had become ill, so he asked his wife to go on with him and hold the targets. Butler kept missing that night, and a spectator shouted, "Let the girl shoot." When Annie successfully did just that, it triggered uproar, and soon the shooting team of Butler and Oakley was born. As Annie's fame grew, Frank spent less time on stage and more on management. He handled finances, dealt with logistics, and served as Oakley's press agent. When Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull famously "adopted" Oakley, Butler made sure to place an advertisement drawing attention to the fact. And when an anonymous California man published a letter praising Lillian Smith and slighting Oakley, Butler composed the indignant reply. He occupied much less of the limelight than his celebrated wife, but Butler didn't seem to mind--he understood that her success helped both of them.

Frank took his turn as family breadwinner after Oakley left Buffal Bill Cody's show in late 1901. That year, Oakley suffered a spinal injury from a train wreck. She underwent five operations and was left partially paralyzed for a time. Oakley made a full recovery, but she toured less often during the last part of her career. However, her shooting expertise never faltered and she continued to set records. In 1922, in a shooting contest in Pinehurst, North Carolina, Oakley hit 100 clay targets straight from 16 yards--she was 62 at the time.

While Oakley occupied herself with her libel suits against William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, Butler became a representative for the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. After Oakley's final Wild West show in 1913, the couple settled into a comfortable retirement, wintering in North Carolina, taking automobile trips, and hunting. The two raised money for the Red Cross during World War I and participated in other charitable endeavors. "Don't you know it's the part of a brother of Man," Frank wrote in a 1911 poem, "To find what the grief is and help what you can?" When Annie Oakley passed away, Frank Butler only stuck around another 18 days, dying on November 21, 1926. One biographer reported that Butler stopped eating after his wife's passing, leading to his own death from malnutrition and starvation.

ANNIE OAKLEY is OPEN ! FRANK BUTLER is OPEN !

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I love your fic. Can I request fic where some historical figure is super into Flynn and Lucy is jealous and in denial about her jealousy because she and Flynn aren't a thing? I feel like the guy is bound to get hit on.

Lucy Preston is having a dilemma.

On the one hand: they’re in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1881, trying to stop Rittenhouse from taking out a five-foot-tall, twenty-one-year-old woman named Phoebe Ann Moses. She doesn’t look like the most formidable opponent to ever cross their path, but at that, you would be gravely mistaken. She will go on to set sharpshooting records, perform in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, tour Europe to dazzle royalty with her amazing skills, become a leading advocate of women being allowed to fight in combat and a teacher of their self-defense, a philanthropist and supporter of other women’s rights causes, and otherwise be better known by her stage name: Annie Oakley. She’s also about to meet fellow sharpshooter and the man she’ll marry a year later, Frank E. Butler, and they’ll be the main characters in a Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun. In other words, in absolutely any other circumstances, Lucy would be melting down over her. She still is, a little. Except.

Except for the fact that Annie hasn’t actually met Frank yet, and at the moment, there is absolutely no denying that she seems to be really, really into Flynn.

They’re standing side by side at the target range where Annie is showing off her skills, Flynn has just taken the opportunity to demonstrate his own, and they are laughing and joking in a way that Lucy valiantly strives not to read into. Annie is even tinier than her, so Flynn outsizes her even more impressively, and Annie keeps touching his arm, glancing up at him through her eyelashes, and remarking that for a man, he sure shoots fine. Flynn is open and smiley and enjoying himself in a way he almost never does, and he doesn’t seem inclined to pour cold water on Annie’s attentions. They take turns shooting the head off a clay pigeon, and Annie admires the results. Then she turns to him. “Mr. Flynn, you fixin’ to do anything later this evening?”

“Actually.” Lucy steps forward rather hurriedly, picking her skirt out of the dust. “We – Garcia and I, we – probably can’t stay. We need to look for those people we said might be after you. It really – it was really great to meet you.”

Annie regards her with a sandy eyebrow raised. “And who’re you, ma’am?”

“I’m Lucy.” Before she can quite stop it, she adds, “Mrs. Flynn.”

Both of Flynn’s own eyebrows go up at that, and he rubs his mouth as if to hide – well, some sort of expression. He obviously is stuck, since he can’t say otherwise without sounding like a cad, and he gives Lucy a slightly wounded look anyway. Annie’s lips purse as she takes that in, until Lucy wants to tell her that it’s all right, she’s going to meet Frank Butler soon. At least if Rittenhouse doesn’t cock it up – and given Emma’s deliberate thwarting of them on the 1919 mission, in order to preserve the Nineteenth Amendment, Annie doesn’t seem like someone she’d choose as a target? Is it a misdirection, is there some other reason they’re here? Or is Lucy secretly looking for another chance to hustle Flynn along from Annie and decide that the real interest is elsewhere?

“Mrs. Flynn,” Annie repeats after a moment, clearly with an effort. She forces a smile. “Well, then, ma’am. Hope you can manage a pistol just like your fella here. I believe all women should know how, just the same as handlin’ babies.”

“I’m – not quite there yet. But I’m working on it.” Lucy feels bad, but not quite enough to take it back, as she slips her arm through Flynn’s. “I – really do admire you, and you’re going to be happy.”

“Admire me?” Annie looks surprised, if slightly confused. “Why?”

“Well, I – I just watched you shoot,” Lucy recovers quickly. “You were very impressive. And I – I’m sure you’ll meet someone who appreciates that about you. Soon, even.”

Annie flicks her eyes sidelong at Flynn, as if to say she was doing fine in that department and maybe he should have opened his mouth a little earlier. But she nods, slings her rifle over her shoulder, and makes polite farewells, as they watch her stride off in her buttoned boots. There’s a pause. Then Flynn looks down at Lucy and says, “Were you jealous of Annie Oakley?”

“I was not jealous of Annie Oakley.” Lucy can feel a telltale heat stealing up her cheeks, and quickly looks away. “Let’s just go find Wyatt and Rufus.”

Flynn coughs, a little pointedly. Actually manages not to say anything else about it for the rest of the day. But oh god, does he grin like the Cheshire Cat.

#lucy x flynn #garcy #garcy ff #anonymous #ask

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