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The Wild West era comes alive in this award-winning photobiogaphy of Annie Oakley, a dynamic young woman of American lore and legend. It was named an ALA Notable, a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Children (NCSS/CBC), School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. Story Locale- U.S.A Series Overview- The National Geographic photobiography series gives young readers an inside look at the lives of famous pioneers in their fields. The series includes Sky Pioneer (Amelia Earhart), Light Shining Through The Mist (Dian Fossey), Always Inventing (Alexander Graham Bell), Trial By Ice (Sir Ernest Shackleton), Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs (Roy Chapman Andrews), Inventing the Future (Thomas Alva Edison), Mystery on Everest (George Mallory), Triumph on Everest (Sir Edmund Hillary), High Hopes (John F. Kennedy), Airborne (Wilbur and Orville Wright), Bull's Eye (Annie Oakley), Onward (Matthew Henson), and Genius (Albert Einstein).