Lillian smith sharpshooter biography

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Lillian Frances Smith was born in in Coleville, California.

Lillian Frances Smith was born in in Coleville, California.

Known as “The California Huntress” before she was ten years old, Smith was a professional sharpshooter by the time she reached her teens, shooting targets from.

Lillian Frances Smith (August 4, – February 3, ) was an.

She was year-old Lillian Frances Smith, the daughter of a white Quaker couple from New England.

I'm covering the tale of Lillian Smith, a sharpshooter and trick rider from the American West.

on the morning of August 3, 1901, more than 100,000 people jostled to catch a glimpse of Frederick Cummins’ Indian Congress parade at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. The crowds shrieked with excitement when they heard the Carlisle Indian Band strike up a tune, and drew a collective gasp when three celebrities appeared on their respective steeds.

There was Geronimo, the aged Apache chief, and Martha “Calamity Jane” Canary, the frontierswoman and scout of the American Plains.

And then there was Wenona, the Sioux girl.

Wenona, Cummins proclaimed, was not only the “champion rifle shot of the world,” but also the daughter of a chief named Crazy Horse and a white woman, born in a “tepee on the south bank of the Big Cheyenne, near Fort Bennett, Dakota,” and only 18 years old.

Cummins offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who could best Wenona with a rifle at the Exhibition. Her extraordinar