Annie Oakley, whose real name was Phoebe Moses, was born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1860. She helped her family survive by hunting and selling game, and although she first learned to use a rifle for practical reasons, she became a skilled sharpshooter. She met her husband, Frank Butler, in a shooting contest in Ohio, and legend holds that she won with 25 out of 25 shots to his 24. Together they created a show, traveled around the country giving shooting demonstrations, performed as champion rifle shots with the circus, and in 1885 joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, touring with it for sixteen years. The show celebrated the old west with skits of stage robberies, gunfights, and military exhibitions, and Annie Oakley's abilities made her one of the most famous women of the west. Chief Sitting Bull, impressed by her skill, gave her the nickname Little Sure Shot. At the invitation of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, she once knocked the ashes off a cigarette he held in his mouth. In 1901 she was severely injured and became partially paralyzed when the train carrying the Wild West Show collided with another. She performed again, but not as the same Annie, and died in 1926 a few years after an auto accident from which she never regained her health.