Annie Oakley
Narrator: : Late in 1865, a fierce blizzard swept across the plains of Indiana, into western Ohio.
旁白： 1865 年末，一场猛烈的暴风雪横扫印第安纳州平原，进入俄亥俄州西部。
Phoebe Anne Moses, the fifth surviving child in a Quaker farming family, waited for her father to come home from the mill, 15 miles away.
菲比·安妮·摩西 (Phoebe Anne Moses) 是贵格会农民家庭中第五个幸存的孩子，她正在等待父亲从 15 英里外的磨坊回家。
It was midnight when Jacob Moses finally returned.
雅各·摩西终于回来时已经是午夜了。
His hands were frozen solid, his speech gone.
他的手冻僵了，无法说话。
He never recovered.
他再也没有康复。
Jacob died in March.
雅各布于三月去世。
Phoebe Anne -- Annie -- was not yet six years old.
菲比·安妮——安妮——当时还不到六岁。
The family soon lost the farm.
这个家庭很快就失去了农场。
Bills piled up.
账单堆积如山。
They were destitute.
他们一贫如洗。
To ease the burden, Annie's mother sent her to live at the county poor farm.
为了减轻负担，安妮的母亲把她送到县贫困农场生活。
Soon she was hired out to work as a live-in helper for a family in a neighboring county.
很快，她就被雇到邻县的一个家庭当住家帮手。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: : Everyone thought that this would be an improvement, but it turned out to be absolutely nightmarish situation.
历史学家 Virginia Scharff：每个人都认为这会是一种进步，但事实证明这绝对是噩梦般的情况。
She never mentioned their name again the rest of her life.
她这辈子都没有再提过他们的名字。
She referred to them as the "wolves."
她称他们为“狼”。
They locked her in closets.
他们把她锁在壁橱里。
They worked her half to death.
他们把她累得半死。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: : One day the farmer's wife, the wolf, Mrs. Wolf, throws her out in the snow, because she fell asleep while she's doing some darning.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者： 有一天，农夫的妻子狼狼夫人将她扔到雪地里，因为她在缝补时睡着了。
Annie Oakley: : Suddenly the "She-Wolf" struck me across the ears, threw me out into the deep snow and locked the door.
安妮·奥克利：突然，“母狼”击中了我的耳朵，把我扔进了厚厚的雪里，并锁上了门。
I had no shoes on.
我没穿鞋。
I was slowly freezing to death.
我慢慢地冻死了。
So I got down on my knees, looked toward God's clear sky, and tried to pray.
于是我跪下，仰望上帝晴朗的天空，尝试祈祷。
But my lips were frozen stiff and there was no sound.
但我的嘴唇冻僵了，发不出声音。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: : If she was sexually abused, we don't know.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：：我们不知道她是否受到性虐待。
She certainly was physically abused.
她确实受到了身体虐待。
She talks about welts on her back.
她谈到了她背上的伤痕。
She talks about being a slave.
她谈论成为奴隶。
I think Annie's experience with the wolves leaves such a deep impression on her -- maybe it's some kind of shame.
我认为安妮与狼的经历给她留下了如此深刻的印象——也许这是某种耻辱。
And I wonder if that shame is so deep in Annie that it influences the rest of her life.
我想知道安妮的这种耻辱是否如此深刻，以至于影响了她的余生。
Narrator: : Annie endured two years with "the wolves," forced to help her own family survive by being one less mouth to feed.
旁白：安妮与“狼群”一起度过了两年的时光，被迫少了一张嘴来养活自己的家人。
Then one day in 1872, 12-year-old Annie Moses could bear it no more.
1872 年的一天，12 岁的安妮·摩西再也无法忍受了。
She ran away, slipped into a crowded railroad car, and made her way back to Greenville.
她逃跑了，溜进一辆拥挤的火车车厢，然后回到了格林维尔。
Her mother was still unable to support another child.
她的母亲仍然无法抚养另一个孩子。
Annie went back to the poor farm, where she earned her keep working as a seamstress.
安妮回到贫穷的农场，在那里她继续做裁缝。
At the age of 15 she finally returned to her mother.
15岁时，她终于回到了母亲身边。
Susan Moses had remarried, but the family was still desperately poor, and a mortgage loomed over their heads.
苏珊·摩西已经再婚了，但家里仍然一贫如洗，抵押贷款的阴影笼罩在他们的头上。
Instead of going to school, Annie taught herself to shoot.
安妮没有去上学，而是自学射击。
With her father's old cap-and-ball rifle, she headed for the woods to hunt.
她带着父亲的旧枪帽和球头步枪，前往树林里打猎。
Soon she was selling hampers of quail to Katzenburger's General Store in Greenville.
很快，她就开始向格林维尔的卡森伯格杂货店出售一篮鹌鹑。
Young Annie was now the family breadwinner, earning a living with her gun.
年轻的安妮现在是家里的经济支柱，靠她的枪谋生。
Mary Zeiss Stange, Professor of Women's Studies: : She was a market hunter and turning a very nice profit.
玛丽·蔡司·斯坦奇（Mary Zeiss Stange），女性研究教授：她是一名市场猎手，并获得了非常可观的利润。
Certainly not something that was at all appropriate for a woman to be doing in that time and place.
当然，在那个时间和地点，女人根本不适合做这样的事情。
Narrator: : Eventually she saved up enough money to pay off the $200 mortgage on the family farm.
旁白：：最终她攒够了钱，还清了家庭农场 200 美元的抵押贷款。
And her prowess with a shotgun was becoming known around Greenville.
她使用霰弹枪的高超技艺在格林维尔周围广为人知。
In the 1870s, shooting well was an important skill for a man, and shooting contests were a favorite spectator sport.
在 1870 年代，射击对于男人来说是一项重要技能，射击比赛也是一项最受欢迎的观赏性运动。
Sharpshooters traveled the country, betting on their ability to perform feats of marksmanship and challenging all comers.
神枪手们走遍全国，押注自己的射击技艺并挑战所有参赛者。
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R。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: Shooting was of such immense popularity that there were professionals.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：射击非常受欢迎，以至于出现了专业人士。
Doc Carver, Evil Spirit of the Plains is what he was called.
卡弗博士，他被称为平原恶灵。
Captain Bogardus, who would eventually have four sons who would travel with him.
博加杜斯船长最终有四个儿子与他一起旅行。
And people were flocking to see shooters like this.
人们纷纷涌来观看这样的射手。
Narrator: : One such shooter was Frank Butler.
旁白：弗兰克·巴特勒就是这样的一名枪手。
An Irish immigrant in his mid-20s, Butler was just starting to make a name for himself on the variety stage.
巴特勒是一名 20 多岁的爱尔兰移民，刚刚开始在综艺舞台上成名。
He was passing through Southern Ohio one fall -- claiming he could outshoot anyone around.
有一年秋天，他路过俄亥俄州南部，声称自己的射击能力超过了周围的任何人。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: : Frank is staying in a hotel in Cincinnati and he starts talking with a bunch of farmers.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：：弗兰克住在辛辛那提的一家酒店里，他开始与一群农民交谈。
The farmers say, "Hey we have someone in our county who's a really good shot and we're going to bet 100 bucks that this person can beat you."
农民们说：“嘿，我们县里有一个人枪法非常好，我们要赌 100 美元，这个人能打败你。”
Narrator: : Butler laughed -- but he needed the money.
旁白：：巴特勒笑了——但他需要钱。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: : Frank Butler, this already professional shootist shows up for this match with hundreds of people watching, and who is it that comes as his opponent but a 15-year-old girl who was only five feet tall and weighed a hundred pounds?
枪械历史学家威尔逊：：弗兰克·巴特勒，这位已经是职业射击手的人出现在数百人观看的这场比赛中，而他的对手是谁，却是一个身高只有五英尺、体重一百磅的 15 岁女孩？
Narrator: : "The moment she appeared," Butler recalled, "I was taken off guard."
旁白：“她一出现，”巴特勒回忆道，“我措手不及。”
Annie's first shot was a hit.
安妮的第一枪就击中了。
Both shooters hit 24 birds in a row.
两名射手连续击中 24 只小鸟。
Then Butler missed.
然后巴特勒投丢了。
"I stopped for an instant," Annie remembered.
“我停了下来，”安妮回忆道。
"I knew I would win." And she did.
“我知道我会赢。”她做到了。
The loser was instantly smitten.
失败者立刻被迷住了。
He offered Annie tickets to his next show.
他向安妮提供了他下一场演出的门票。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: : He must have seemed to her, like, a man of the world.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：：在她看来，他一定是一个见多识广的人。
That's the only way I can think of it.
这是我能想到的唯一方法。
You know, here she's lived her whole life in the Ohio woods, and here's this man who's with the circus.
你知道，她在俄亥俄州的森林里度过了一生，而这个男人就是马戏团的成员。
He's been on the variety stage.
他已经登上了综艺舞台。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: : It was chemistry.
Virginia Scharff，历史学家：：这是化学。
He made himself appear safe to her.
他让自己对她来说显得很安全。
He clearly admired her.
他显然很欣赏她。
He sparked and courted her as few of us have ever been sparked or courted and everyone of us would like to be by someone, and she was lucky to find him and I think he knew he was lucky to find her.
他激发了她并向她求爱，因为我们中很少有人曾经被激发或追求过，我们每个人都想被某个人所吸引，她很幸运能找到他，我想他知道他很幸运能找到她。
Narrator: : Frank Butler was Annie's ticket out of Greenville.
旁白：弗兰克·巴特勒是安妮离开格林维尔的车票。
They soon married.
他们很快就结婚了。
For the next six years, while Butler and his new shooting partner John Graham performed on the variety circuit, Annie stayed in the background.
在接下来的六年里，当巴特勒和他的新拍摄搭档约翰·格雷厄姆在综艺节目中表演时，安妮却留在了幕后。
That was about to change.
这种情况即将改变。
Butler and Graham were playing a theater in Springfield, Ohio, when John Graham suddenly fell ill.
当约翰·格雷厄姆突然病倒时，巴特勒和格雷厄姆正在俄亥俄州斯普林菲尔德的一家剧院演出。
Annie filled in, holding the targets.
安妮拿着靶子填补了空白。
That night Frank kept missing -- until a jeering spectator shouted, "Let the girl shoot!"
那天晚上，弗兰克一直失踪——直到一个嘲笑的观众喊道：“让那个女孩开枪吧！”
Annie hit the targets every time -- much to the delight of the raucous crowd.
安妮每次都击中目标，让喧闹的人群非常高兴。
Mrs. Butler took a stage name, borrowed from her paternal grandmother -- Annie Oakley.
巴特勒夫人从她的祖母那里借用了一个艺名——安妮·奥克利。
When the shooting team of "Butler and Oakley" hit the road, traveling entertainment was in its heyday.
当“巴特勒和奥克利”的拍摄团队上路时，旅行娱乐正处于鼎盛时期。
Circuses, theatre companies and vaudeville acts traveled the country, playing venues from outdoor arenas to smoky saloons.
马戏团、剧院公司和歌舞杂耍表演遍布全国，演出场地从室外竞技场到烟雾缭绕的酒吧。
For Annie and Frank, it was an exhausting life of noisy train rides, seedy hotels, and one-night stands.
对于安妮和弗兰克来说，吵闹的火车、破旧的旅馆和一夜情的住宿是一种令人筋疲力尽的生活。
Their shooting act might be sandwiched in between a bawdy songstress and a scantily-clad acrobat.
他们的射击表演可能夹在一个淫荡的女歌手和一个衣着暴露的杂技演员之间。
Don B.
唐·B.
Wilmeth, Theatre Historian: : Variety was a largely male-oriented form of entertainment.
威尔梅斯，戏剧历史学家：：综艺主要是一种以男性为导向的娱乐形式。
There was a good deal of double entendre in comedy, there were suggestive lyrics in songs, and there was a good deal of semi-nudity.
喜剧中有很多双关语，歌曲中有很多暗示性的歌词，还有很多半裸的内容。
The acts could be a tad salacious.
这些行为可能有点淫荡。
Narrator: : It was the Victorian Age.
旁白： ：那是维多利亚时代。
Annie Oakley, the Quaker girl from Ohio, feared being thought a loose woman.
来自俄亥俄州的贵格会女孩安妮·奥克利（Annie Oakley）担心被认为是一个放荡的女人。
She resolved to set herself apart -- both in manner and in dress.
她决心在举止和着装上让自己与众不同。
She began wearing an outfit that completely covered her body -- a calf-length skirt, long sleeves and leggings.
她开始穿一套完全遮盖身体的衣服——长及小腿的裙子、长袖和打底裤。
It became her trademark.
这成了她的商标。
Joy Kasson, Historian: : She made her own costumes.
乔伊·卡森（Joy Kasson），历史学家：：她自己制作服装。
That was very important to her -- was part of her desire to control her self-presentation.
这对她来说非常重要——这是她控制自我表现的愿望的一部分。
She could move easily in them, and yet she looked ...
她穿着它们可以轻松移动，但她看起来……
she looked respectable.
她看起来很受人尊敬。
She looked childlike.
她看起来像个孩子。
Narrator: : Frank soon realized that Annie was the main attraction of Butler and Oakley.
旁白：弗兰克很快意识到安妮是巴特勒和奥克利的主要吸引力。
In a remarkable reversal of 19th century roles, Frank Butler became Annie Oakley's assistant.
弗兰克·巴特勒 (Frank Butler) 成为了安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley) 的助手，与 19 世纪的角色发生了惊人的逆转。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: : I think Frank Butler understood that she had a kind of star quality that he didn't want to overshadow, and Frank Butler didn't have a problem with that.
弗吉尼亚·沙尔夫，历史学家：我认为弗兰克·巴特勒明白她有一种他不想掩盖的明星品质，而弗兰克·巴特勒对此没有任何问题。
I think he adored her.
我想他很崇拜她。
I think he also was a savvy businessman who understood that she was pretty, she was ladylike, she was petite, she would do what needed to be done to make that rise to the top.
我认为他也是一个精明的商人，知道她很漂亮，她很有淑女气质，她很娇小，她会做任何需要做的事情来让她登上顶峰。
And he didn't want to get in her way.
而且他不想妨碍她。
As a matter of fact, he understood that for the two of them, the best thing possible was to let her take the lead.
其实他也明白，对于两个人来说，让她来主导才是最好的。
In 1884 Butler and Oakley landed a 40-week job with Sells Brothers Circus, one of the biggest traveling shows in the country.
1884 年，巴特勒和奥克利在塞尔斯兄弟马戏团（美国最大的巡回演出之一）找到了一份为期 40 周的工作。
Finally, they had steady work with a clean, family-oriented show.
最终，他们以干净、适合家庭的节目获得了稳定的工作。
But circus life was hard and the pay unreliable.
但马戏团的生活很艰苦，工资也不稳定。
When the season ended in New Orleans that December, it looked as if Frank and Annie would have to go back to a life of one-night stands and unsavory characters.
那年 12 月，当赛季在新奥尔良结束时，弗兰克和安妮似乎不得不回到一夜情和令人讨厌的角色的生活。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: The circus season is ending the very week that Buffalo Bill's Wild West comes to New Orleans and it's like, "Wow, the circus is ending.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：马戏季在布法罗比尔的狂野西部来到新奥尔良的那一周结束，就像，“哇，马戏团结束了。
We need a job." So they ask Cody if they can come on with his show.
我们需要一份工作。”所以他们问科迪是否可以参加他的节目。
To Annie, it seemed like a dream job -- Buffalo Bill Cody's show was the first of its kind -- a re-creation of the West, featuring the finest performers in the country.
对安妮来说，这似乎是一份梦想的工作——布法罗·比尔·科迪的表演是此类表演中的第一场——再现了西部地区，由全国最优秀的表演者出演。
But Cody didn't need Annie Oakley -- he already had a star shooter.
但科迪不需要安妮·奥克利——他已经有了一位明星射手。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: He has Captain Bogardus, who's like this really famous shot, champion of the world.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：他有博加杜斯队长，他就像这个非常著名的镜头，世界冠军。
He's very well known.
他非常有名。
And so Cody turns them down.
所以科迪拒绝了他们。
Paul Fees, Historian: It's not that she was a woman.
历史学家保罗·费斯：这并不是说她是一个女人。
There were, after all, already Indian women in the show.
毕竟，剧中已经有印度女性了。
Cody had worked with women in the theater.
科迪曾在剧院与女性合作过。
There were just not the dramatic elements in the show yet that could make use of a woman like Annie Oakley.
剧中还没有戏剧性的元素可以利用像安妮·奥克利这样的女人。
Narrator: : The Butlers reluctantly headed north, back to the variety circuit.
旁白：：巴特勒一家不情愿地向北行进，回到了综艺圈。
Then, fate intervened.
然后，命运介入了。
Buffalo Bill's steamer sank on the Mississippi River.
布法罗比尔的汽船在密西西比河沉没。
Captain Bogardus lost all his shooting equipment and quit the show.
博加杜斯队长失去了所有的射击设备并退出了演出。
Frank and Annie promptly wired Cody, asking for an audition.
弗兰克和安妮立即给科迪打电话，请求试镜。
Buffalo Bill was skeptical -- the girl was asking for too much money.
布法罗·比尔对此表示怀疑——这个女孩要的钱太多了。
And Cody -- a champion sharpshooter himself -- didn't think such a tiny woman would have the endurance to perform night after night.
科迪本人也是一名冠军神枪手，他认为这么小的女人不可能有耐力夜复一夜地表演。
As she was practicing in an empty stadium, Annie noticed a man in a fancy hat standing by the grandstand, staring at her.
当安妮在空荡荡的体育场里练习时，她注意到看台旁站着一个戴着花哨帽子的男人，盯着她看。
Suddenly he ran over, shouting "Fine!
突然他跑了过来，喊道：“好啦！
Wonderful!
太棒了！
Have you got some photographs with your gun?"
你有带枪的照片吗？”
The dapper gentleman was Cody's business manager, Nate Salsbury.
这位衣冠楚楚的绅士是科迪的业务经理内特·萨尔斯伯里。
He hired Oakley on the spot.
他当场聘请了奥克利。
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show was a lavish spectacle -- part melodrama ...
布法罗比尔的狂野西部表演是一场奢华的奇观——部分是情节剧……
part circus ...
部分马戏团...
part rodeo.
部分牛仔竞技表演。
It offered a taste of life on the old frontier -- to an America that was rapidly industrializing.
它让人们体验到了旧边疆的生活——一个正在快速工业化的美国。
In the crowded urban centers of the East, people flocked to Buffalo Bill's show -- eager for a glimpse of the Wild West.
在东部拥挤的城市中心，人们涌向布法罗·比尔的表演——渴望一睹狂野西部的风采。
Paul Fees, Historian: : The whole world was fascinated with the West, and as it was becoming settled, those elements that were seen as the foundation of America's uniqueness -- the rugged individualism, and the adventure, and the conflict with Indians and with and with buffalo, and all of those reckless parts of America's past -- seemed to be coming to an end.
历史学家保罗·费斯：整个世界都对西方着迷，随着西方逐渐安定下来，那些被视为美国独特性基础的元素——粗犷的个人主义、冒险精神、与印第安人和水牛的冲突，以及美国过去所有那些鲁莽的部分——似乎即将结束。
Buffalo Bill was a representative, a living representative of that story, of that adventure.
布法罗比尔是那个故事、那个冒险的代表，活生生的代表。
And it's that adventure that he put into his Wild West Show.
这就是他在狂野西部秀中投入的冒险。
Audiences saw the real stagecoach, they saw real soldiers, they saw real Indians and cowboys.
观众看到了真正的驿站马车，看到了真正的士兵，看到了真正的印第安人和牛仔。
Joy Kasson, Historian: There were horses -- there were steer -- there were live buffalo.
乔伊·卡森（Joy Kasson），历史学家：有马——有牛——有活水牛。
Narrator: : It was into this roiling microcosm of the Wild West that Annie Oakley, the little girl from Ohio, first stepped in April 1885.
旁白：1885 年 4 月，来自俄亥俄州的小女孩安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley) 第一次踏入了狂野西部这个动荡的缩影。
Cody placed her low on the bill, but she soon became an audience favorite.
科迪对她的评价很低，但她很快就成为观众的最爱。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: She tripped into the arena.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：她绊倒了竞技场。
She didn't walk in.
她没有走进去。
She blew kisses.
她飞吻。
She waved.
她挥手。
She was like animated, alive...
她就像是充满活力、充满活力……
like this sweet kind of person, but with this big bang gun.
喜欢这种可爱的人，但是带着这把大爆炸枪。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: She starts off slow -- one ball, two balls.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：她一开始很慢——一个球，两个球。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: Glass balls which, when they're hit, they explode and feathers fly out.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：玻璃球，当它们被击中时，它们会爆炸，羽毛会飞出去。
Paul Fees, Historian: : Frank would toss up one, and then two at a time, and then three at a time.
历史学家保罗·费斯：弗兰克会一次扔一个，然后一次扔两个，然后一次扔三个。
And then Annie Oakley would toss them up herself.
然后安妮·奥克利会自己把它们扔掉。
She'd toss two or three or four target balls in the air, grab a shotgun, shoot two, grab another, shoot two more.
她会向空中扔两个、三个或四个目标球，拿起一把猎枪，射击两个，抓住另一个，再射击两个。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: And she could hit all three before any one of them would reach the ground.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：她可以在其中任何一个落地之前击中所有三个。
And then she'd go to six.
然后她会去六点。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: Her act gets faster and faster and faster and faster, until, you know, it's just like boom, boom, things are just being broken all around.
Shirl Kasper，传记作家：她的动作变得越来越快，越来越快，直到，你知道，就像繁荣，繁荣，周围的事物都被打破了。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: She could shoot with her left hand, with her right hand.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：她可以用左手射击，也可以用右手射击。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: She like turns her gun upside down, or sideways, or sighting in a mirror.
Shirl Kasper，传记作家：她喜欢把枪倒过来，或者侧向，或者照镜子。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: One of her favorite tricks was to have Frank hold a playing card up, and she could either shoot through the heart when it was flat against her, or, if it was held sideways, she could split the card it two, which is a pretty amazing shot.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：她最喜欢的技巧之一是让弗兰克举起一张扑克牌，当心脏平放在她身上时，她可以射穿心脏，或者，如果心脏放在侧面，她可以将卡片分成两半，这是一个非常惊人的射击。
Occasionally she'd miss a shot on purpose, and then she'd kind of pout, and this was part of the act, because she -- she could always hit the target.
偶尔她会故意错过一枪，然后她会撅起嘴，这是表演的一部分，因为她——她总能击中目标。
She was somebody who never missed.
她是一个从未错过的人。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: I think it's an innate skill.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：我认为这是一种与生俱来的技能。
She said, you know, "Nobody ever taught me to shoot." I think it was just -- "A love of the gun was just born in me."
她说，你知道，“没有人教过我射击。”我认为这只是——“我对枪的热爱刚刚诞生。”
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: It was an instinct and a skill and an ability that only persons who have phenomenal vision, have a wonderful sense of timing, who have hand-eye coordination, who have good balance and were really very athletic, because a really good shot has to be a really good athlete.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：这是一种本能、一种技巧和一种能力，只有那些拥有惊人视力、出色的时机感、手眼协调能力、良好的平衡性和真正的运动能力的人，因为真正好的射击必须是真正优秀的运动员。
Narrator: : Once Annie's act started getting rave reviews, Cody moved her up the bill, right after the opening procession.
旁白：：当安妮的表演受到热烈好评后，科迪就在开场游行结束后将她的表演提升到了更高的位置。
That season, 150,000 people in 40 cities across America saw something entirely new -- a woman who could shoot as well as any man while conveying a youthful innocence, that -- whether Annie realized it or not -- was sexy.
那一季，美国 40 个城市的 150,000 人看到了一些全新的东西——一个可以像任何男人一样射击的女人，同时传达出青春的纯真，无论安妮是否意识到，这都是性感的。
It was the stuff of stardom.
这是明星的东西。
Elliot West, Historian: She was this really, remarkable, remarkable shot.
埃利奥特·韦斯特，历史学家：她是一位非常、非凡、非凡的人物。
But what makes her especially interesting is that she was able to combine that with an image, with a kind of vision of American womanhood that was provocative, but what many people felt comfortable with.
但让她特别有趣的是，她能够将其与形象结合起来，与一种具有挑衅性但许多人感到舒服的美国女性愿景结合起来。
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Wilmeth, Theatre Historian: I think what makes her unusual is the fact that she could project a kind of demure, lady-like, often almost a little girl person and at the same time be very sexual, very attractive physically.
威尔梅斯，剧院历史学家：我认为她的不同寻常之处在于，她可以表现出一种端庄、淑女般的气质，通常几乎是一个小女孩，同时又非常性感，身体上非常有吸引力。
Annie Oakley's celebrity grew when the Wild West spent the summer of 1886 in an arena on Staten Island.
1886 年夏天，狂野西部在史坦顿岛的一个竞技场上度过了一个夏天，安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley) 的名气越来越大。
Half a million people sailed past the new Statue of Liberty, then rode on special trains straight to the Wild West.
五十万人驶过新的自由女神像，然后乘坐专列直达狂野西部。
It was the most popular attraction ever seen in New York and Annie was now becoming as famous as Buffalo Bill himself.
这是纽约有史以来最受欢迎的景点，安妮现在和布法罗比尔本人一样出名。
Frank became Annie's press agent, playing on the deep fascination Easterners had with the Old West.
弗兰克成为安妮的新闻经纪人，利用东方人对旧西部的深深迷恋。
He advertised his Ohio-born wife as "The Girl of the Western Plains."
他把他出生于俄亥俄州的妻子宣传为“西部平原的女孩”。
And he never tired of telling the story of the night Chief Sitting Bull, the old Sioux warrior, asked if he could adopt Annie -- after watching her shoot the ace of hearts out of a card at 30 paces.
他乐此不疲地讲述了那个夜晚的故事：老苏族战士酋长坐牛在看到安妮在 30 步外射出一张牌中的红桃王后，询问他是否可以收养安妮。
Donald Fixico, Historian: : When Sitting Bull first saw that she had these amazing abilities, you know, to handle a rifle, and her keen eye sight, then obviously she had some endowed power of some sort, that he recognized immediately.
历史学家唐纳德·菲西科：：当坐牛第一次看到她拥有这些惊人的能力，你知道，可以操纵步枪，以及她敏锐的视力，那么显然她具有某种天生的力量，他立即意识到了这一点。
When Indian people look at such individuals that have been empowered like that, then we have the greatest respect.
当印度人民看到这样被赋予权力的人时，我们会怀有最大的敬意。
Narrator: : Sitting Bull christened his new daughter "Watanya Cecilia" -- "Little Sure Shot."
旁白：：坐牛给他的新女儿取名为“Watanya Cecilia”——“小肯定射击”。
For a time he toured with Annie in Buffalo Bill's show, but the great chief soon left, saying he had grown sick of "the noises and the multitudes of men."
有一段时间，他和安妮一起参加了布法罗比尔的演出，但这位伟大的酋长很快就离开了，说他已经厌倦了“噪音和人群”。
When Buffalo Bill's Wild West opened in Madison Square Garden in the fall of 1886, "Little Sure Shot" became the darling of Manhattan.
1886 年秋天，当 Buffalo Bill's Wild West 在麦迪逊广场花园开业时，“Little Sure Shot”成为曼哈顿的宠儿。
She performed before 6,000 people, many in evening dress.
她在 6,000 名观众面前表演，其中许多人穿着晚礼服。
The mistreated, half-starved little girl from Ohio had become an icon of the American West.
这个来自俄亥俄州的受虐待、半饥饿的小女孩已成为美国西部的偶像。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: : There was probably never a woman in the history of the United States who was better equipped to take up the challenge of creating a legend, creating a myth of the western woman and then embodying that myth with the kind of lady-like demeanor that would make her acceptable, it is a remarkable creation in American legend.
历史学家维吉尼亚·沙尔夫：：在美国历史上，可能从来没有哪个女性比她更有能力接受创造传奇的挑战，创造西方女性的神话，然后以让她接受的淑女风范来体现这个神话，这是美国传奇中的非凡创造。
Narrator: : In March 1887, Cody's Wild West troupe sailed from New York harbor, bound for London, to perform at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
旁白： 1887 年 3 月，科迪的狂野西部剧团从纽约港起航，前往伦敦，在维多利亚女王登基五十周年庆典上演出。
Their ship was a veritable Noah's ark.
他们的船是名副其实的诺亚方舟。
The hold was packed with horses, buffalo, elk, and mules.
货舱里挤满了马、水牛、麋鹿和骡子。
Dozens of Native Americans huddled together, bracing for the first ocean voyage of their lives.
数十名美洲原住民挤在一起，准备迎接他们人生中的第一次远洋航行。
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加利福尼亚州。
Clustered in the bow were Buffalo Bill, Annie and Frank -- but also Cody's new discovery -- 15-year-old Lillian Smith, a sharp-shooting sensation from California.
聚集在船头的有布法罗·比尔、安妮和弗兰克，还有科迪的新发现——15 岁的莉莲·史密斯，来自加州的神枪手。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: Lillian Smith was an expert with a rifle, so much so that Cody himself had said he would pay $10,000 to anybody who beat Lillian Smith at rifle shooting.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：莉莲·史密斯是步枪专家，科迪本人曾表示，如果有人在步枪射击中击败莉莲·史密斯，他将支付 10,000 美元。
Narrator: : Even before they reached London, Lillian had been bragging -- "now that I'm with the Wild West," she declared, "Annie Oakley is done for."
旁白：：甚至在他们到达伦敦之前，莉莲就一直在吹牛——“现在我在狂野西部了，”她宣称，“安妮·奥克利完蛋了。”
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: Lillian Smith tended to speak very coarsely and she was kind of rakish, she liked to hang around with the cowboys.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：莉莲·史密斯说话很粗俗，而且她有点放荡，她喜欢和牛仔们在一起。
And she had this bodice that said "Champion Rifle Shot of the World."
她的紧身胸衣上写着“世界步枪射击冠军”。
Narrator: : This was not what Annie Oakley wanted to see just as her own star was on the rise.
旁白：：这并不是安妮·奥克利在她自己的明星冉冉升起时希望看到的。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: Lillian Smith really shows how competitive Annie is.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：莉莲·史密斯确实展示了安妮的竞争能力。
She's worried because Lillian's 15 years old.
她很担心，因为莉莲已经 15 岁了。
Annie is 26 now.
安妮现在26岁了。
Suddenly when you start reading the press releases, Annie becomes younger than she has been she now starts telling people she's born in 1866.
突然间，当你开始阅读新闻稿时，安妮变得比以前更年轻了，她现在开始告诉人们她出生于 1866 年。
Now she's 20 and she can compete a little easier with this new girl in the Wild West Show.
现在她已经 20 岁了，她可以在狂野西部秀中与这位新女孩竞争更轻松一些。
She's practical.
她很实际。
She does what she needs to survive.
她做了她需要生存的事情。
Narrator: : On May 9, 1887, when the Wild West show opened in London, Oakley and Smith were given equal billing.
旁白： 1887 年 5 月 9 日，当狂野西部秀在伦敦开幕时，奥克利和史密斯得到了同等的待遇。
Ten thousand eager spectators clamored to get in.
一万名热切的观众吵着要进去。
The crush, and fight, and struggle to reach the gates...
碾压、战斗、奋力到达大门……
was something terrific," reported The London Evening News .
真是太棒了，”《伦敦晚报》报道。
In attendance were leading British intellectuals, such as playwright Oscar Wilde, and many of the crowned heads of Europe.
出席会议的有英国知名知识分子，如剧作家奥斯卡·王尔德，以及许多欧洲国王。
Elliot West, Historian: : The English were fascinated by America as a place where you could escape the traps of the modern industrial world.
埃利奥特·韦斯特（Elliot West），历史学家：：英国人对美国着迷，认为美国是一个可以逃离现代工业世界陷阱的地方。
They saw America as a place of wide-open spaces, a place of the free individual in the wilderness.
他们将美国视为一个广阔空间的地方，一个荒野中自由个体的地方。
And I think Cody's Wild West show and Annie Oakley herself spoke to that mixed appeal of America to the English.
我认为科迪的狂野西部秀和安妮·奥克利本人都谈到了美国对英国人的复杂吸引力。
Mary Zeiss Stange, Professor of Women's Studies: Annie particularly was a figure that Europeans welcomed, because on the one hand, she represented the wild western girl, that image that she had so carefully created and cultivated.
玛丽·蔡司·斯坦奇，女性研究教授：安妮尤其是欧洲人欢迎的人物，因为一方面，她代表了狂野的西方女孩，这是她精心创造和培养的形象。
But at the same time she was a Victorian woman who was there, after all, to meet the woman who created the Victorian era.
但同时她又是一位维多利亚时代的女性，毕竟她是来见见这位创造维多利亚时代的女性的。
Narrator: : In June, Queen Victoria herself came out to watch the show.
旁白：：六月，维多利亚女王亲自出来观看演出。
After the performance, her Majesty beckoned Annie and Lillian to approach the royal box.
表演结束后，女王陛下示意安妮和莉莲接近王室包厢。
Lillian seized the moment, showing off her Winchester repeating rifle to the queen -- much to Annie's chagrin.
莉莲抓住了这个时机，向女王展示了她的温彻斯特连发步枪——这让安妮很懊恼。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: So Annie has some very severe competition.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：所以安妮面临着一些非常激烈的竞争。
And it's not really with somebody that she respects.
而且这并不是她真正尊重的人。
Annie says, you know, "Oh Lillian, her ample figure, her poor grammar...
安妮说，你知道，“哦，莉莲，她丰满的身材，她糟糕的语法......
People would see the truth of her eventually." It shows just how much dislike there was between them.
人们最终会看到她的真相。”这表明他们之间有多么不喜欢。
Narrator: : The most important shooting event in England was the annual rifle competition at Wimbledon, and the big-name American shooters were invited to compete.
旁白：：英国最重要的射击赛事是一年一度的温布尔登步枪比赛，邀请了美国大牌射手参加比赛。
Lillian Smith was the first to arrive.
莉莲·史密斯是第一个到达的。
She shot poorly and left in a huff.
她射得不好，气呼呼地离开了。
The next day Annie Oakley appeared.
第二天安妮·奥克利出现了。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: Annie does great.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：安妮做得很好。
And she does it with a rifle.
她用步枪做到了这一点。
And Lillian's supposed to be the rifle expert.
莉莲应该是步枪专家。
Annie's the shotgun shooter.
安妮是霰弹枪射手。
So she has upstaged Lillian Smith, kind of beaten her at her own game.
所以她抢了莉莲·史密斯的风头，有点在她自己的游戏中击败了她。
Annie becomes the toast of London, some papers even said she was more popular than Cody.
安妮成为伦敦的焦点，一些报纸甚至说她比科迪更受欢迎。
Narrator: : Buffalo Bill never showed up at Wimbledon.
旁白：：布法罗比尔从未出现在温布尔登网球公开赛上。
"The gallant colonel," a London newspaper wrote, "was not the champion of his own show."
伦敦一家报纸写道：“英勇的上校并不是他自己的表演的冠军。”
Another paper compared his marksmanship unfavorably with Annie's.
另一篇论文将他的枪法与安妮的枪法进行了比较。
Relations between Annie and Buffalo Bill became strained, even as the rivalry between and Annie and Lillian heated up.
尽管安妮和莉莲之间的竞争日益激烈，但安妮和布法罗比尔之间的关系变得紧张。
A friend of Lillian's published a letter in a major American sporting periodical claiming that Lillian Smith was the toast of London while Annie Oakley had been forgotten.
莉莲的一位朋友在美国一家主要体育期刊上发表了一封信，声称莉莲·史密斯是伦敦的焦点，而安妮·奥克利却被遗忘了。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: And it's not true.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：这不是真的。
You can imagine how Annie must feel about this.
你可以想象安妮对此的感受。
There's a huge rift behind the scenes in the Wild West and the press gets a hold of this.
狂野西部的幕后存在着巨大的裂痕，媒体也掌握了这一点。
Narrator: : Frank Butler and Nate Salsbury responded with letters of their own, defending Annie's reputation.
旁白：弗兰克·巴特勒和内特·萨尔斯伯里用自己的信件予以回应，捍卫安妮的声誉。
Buffalo Bill Cody -- said nothing at all.
布法罗·比尔·科迪——什么也没说。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: So who is he siding with, or why is he not sticking up for Annie?
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：那么他站在谁一边，或者为什么他不支持安妮呢？
What's going on, that he -- that he's not talking?
发生了什么事，他——他不说话了？
And I think there's a mention that Annie at some point says she has to kind of cut back on a few of her stunts in the Wild West arena because she's upstaging Cody.
我认为有人提到安妮在某个时候说她必须减少在狂野西部竞技场中的一些特技表演，因为她抢了科迪的风头。
So there's probably some kind of jealousy all over the place.
所以可能到处都有某种嫉妒。
Narrator: : In late October, The London Evening News printed a stunning announcement -- Annie Oakley would "sever her connection with the Wild West voluntarily" following their final London performance that very evening.
旁白： 十月下旬，《伦敦晚报》刊登了一则令人震惊的公告——安妮·奥克利将在当晚伦敦最后一场演出后“自愿切断与狂野西部的联系”。
After two and-a-half years in the bright spotlight of the Wild West Show -- at the very height of her popularity and earning power -- Annie Oakley left Buffalo Bill.
在《狂野西部秀》的聚光灯下度过了两年半之后，安妮·奥克利（Annie Oakley）离开了布法罗比尔（Buffalo Bill），当时她的人气和收入都达到了顶峰。
Her only public comment on the matter was a cryptic statement published years later -- "The reasons for so doing," she wrote, "take too long to tell."
她对此事唯一的公开评论是多年后发表的一份神秘声明——“这样做的原因，”她写道，“需要很长时间才能说出。”
In the spring of 1888 the Butlers took their act to the vaudeville stage.
1888 年春天，管家乐队将他们的表演搬上了杂耍舞台。
But the times were changing.
但时代在变。
Singers, dancers, and comedians were what audiences now wanted to see -- not sharpshooters.
现在观众想看到的是歌手、舞者和喜剧演员，而不是神枪手。
Annie worked briefly for other Wild West shows, but heard that Nate Salsbury was threatening to sue any company that hired her.
安妮曾短暂为其他狂野西部节目工作过，但听说内特·萨尔斯伯里威胁要起诉任何雇用她的公司。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: She has a really tough year after she leaves the Wild West.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：离开狂野西部后，她度过了非常艰难的一年。
She kind of darts around.
她有点像飞来飞去。
She goes and works for a circus.
她去马戏团工作。
She goes in this terrible play, Deadwood Dick -- it's very irreputable.
她参加了这部糟糕的戏剧，《戴德伍德迪克》——这是非常声名狼藉的。
She says, "I'm amazed no one threw carrots at us."
她说：“我很惊讶没有人向我们扔胡萝卜。”
Narrator: : The show closed after a month, when the manager pocketed the receipts and skipped town.
旁白： 演出在一个月后结束，经理将收据装进口袋并逃离了小镇。
Then in February 1889, much to Annie's surprise, Nate Salsbury came to call.
1889 年 2 月，令安妮大吃一惊的是，内特·萨尔斯伯里 (Nate Salsbury) 来电话了。
Buffalo Bill was planning a trip to Paris that spring and wanted her back.
布法罗·比尔计划那年春天去巴黎旅行，并希望她回来。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: They needed her.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：他们需要她。
They needed her more than they thought they needed her.
他们比他们想象的更需要她。
And so whatever rift there was, is mended.
因此，无论存在什么裂痕，都已得到修复。
And interestingly, Lillian Smith does not go to Paris.
有趣的是，莉莲·史密斯并没有去巴黎。
I mean, we don't know, but it would make sense that maybe, that was part of the bargain.
我的意思是，我们不知道，但也许这是交易的一部分，这是有道理的。
"I'll come back if Lillian goes."
“如果莉莲走了，我就会回来。”
Narrator: : Over 30 million people came to the Paris Exposition of 1889.
旁白：：1889 年巴黎博览会吸引了超过 3000 万人。
Within sight of the new Eiffel tower, Buffalo Bill's Wild West played to overflow crowds night after night.
在新埃菲尔铁塔的视野范围内，布法罗比尔的狂野西部夜复一夜地为观众带来欢乐。
Annie Oakley was soon the talk of Paris.
安妮·奥克利很快成为巴黎的话题。
The French President offered "la belle Américaine" a commission in the army.
法国总统向“美丽的美洲人”提供了在军队服役的机会。
The king of Senegal tried to buy her for 100,000 francs -- "to destroy the vicious lions who devastate my country's villages," he said.
塞内加尔国王试图以 10 万法郎买下她，“以消灭那些蹂躏我国村庄的凶猛狮子，”他说。
Stories describing fictitious events from her past were splashed across newspapers all over Europe and America.
描述她过去的虚构事件的故事遍布欧洲和美国的报纸。
A dime novel described Annie's thrilling, if completely fictional, childhood in Kansas.
一本廉价小说描述了安妮在堪萨斯州令人兴奋的童年，尽管这完全是虚构的。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: Totally Wild West -- she kills the bad guy, Darkey Morrow, with one shot.
Shirl Kasper，传记作家：狂野西部——她一枪杀死了坏人达基·莫罗。
She kills a bear.
她杀死了一头熊。
She hits a panther through the eye.
她打穿了一只黑豹的眼睛。
She saves the train from the train robber.
她从火车强盗手中救出了火车。
She wrestles this wolf, and the wolf is biting her but she's so brave, she doesn't even cry out.
她与狼搏斗，狼正在咬她，但她很勇敢，甚至没有哭出来。
They're turning Annie into a legend.
他们正在把安妮变成一个传奇。
Narrator: : Oakley's legend continued to grow, as she toured Europe with Cody for the next three years.
旁白：：奥克利的传奇继续发展，在接下来的三年里，她与科迪一起游览了欧洲。
It was said she saved the life of the prince of Bavaria -- throwing him to safety as he was about to be trampled by a bucking bronco.
据说她救了巴伐利亚王子的命，在他即将被狂暴的野马践踏时将他扔到安全的地方。
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia was so impressed by Annie's skill that he insisted on participating in her act.
普鲁士威廉王子对安妮的表演印象深刻，坚持参加她的表演。
He lit a cigarette -- from 30 paces, Annie shot it away.
他点燃了一根香烟——安妮在 30 步外把它灭了。
"If my aim had been poorer," she later said, "I might have averted the Great War."
“如果我的目标再糟糕一些，”她后来说，“我可能就能避免第一次世界大战。”
Or so went the stories, as Annie and Frank liked to tell them.
或者说，故事就是这样，正如安妮和弗兰克喜欢讲的那样。
Paul Fees, Historian: They began to tell more and more tall tales about themselves.
历史学家保罗·费斯：他们开始讲述越来越多关于自己的荒诞故事。
Not falsehoods necessarily, but tall tales, stories that probably had a foundation in fact, but became certainly better in the retelling, certainly better for publicity.
不一定是谎言，而是荒唐的故事，这些故事可能有事实基础，但在重述中肯定会变得更好，当然更有利于宣传。
Narrator: : In 1893, the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago, showing off the latest technological marvels.
旁白： 1893 年，哥伦布博览会在芝加哥开幕，展示了最新的科技奇迹。
Buffalo Bill was not invited to join this celebration of modernity.
布法罗·比尔没有被邀请参加这场现代性的庆祝活动。
He set up in an adjacent lot and his old time Wild West show drew larger crowds than the futuristic Exposition.
他在邻近的场地举办，他以前的狂野西部表演比未来派博览会吸引了更多的人群。
Oakley and Cody had become living symbols of the Wild West -- a place that was fast disappearing.
奥克利和科迪已经成为狂野西部的活生生的象征——这个地方正在迅速消失。
Paul Fees, Historian: : 1893 marks the beginning of a true nostalgia for the passing of the West, and certainly focused attention on Buffalo Bill's Wild West as being somehow a preserver of the old, a showcase for those values that people were afraid were being lost.
历史学家保罗·费斯 (Paul Fees)：1893 年标志着对西部消逝的真正怀旧之情的开始，并且无疑将注意力集中在布法罗比尔的狂野西部上，因为它在某种程度上是旧的保护者，展示了人们担心正在丢失的那些价值观。
Narrator: : The Columbian Exposition glowed with a new marvel, electric light and showcased another: Thomas Edison's kinetoscope -- a primitive device for viewing movies.
旁白： 哥伦布博览会闪耀着新的奇迹——电灯，并展示了另一个奇迹：托马斯·爱迪生的电影放映机——一种观看电影的原始设备。
In 1894, Edison invited Annie and Frank to his New Jersey studio for a test of his movie camera.
1894 年，爱迪生邀请安妮和弗兰克到他位于新泽西的工作室测试他的电影摄影机。
In dim, smoky images, Edison's camera managed to capture Annie's performance.
在昏暗、烟雾缭绕的图像中，爱迪生的相机成功地捕捉到了安妮的表演。
But the invention also signaled the end of the Wild West Shows.
但这项发明也标志着狂野西部表演的结束。
By the early 1900s, movies would become the main source of western entertainment.
到 1900 年代初，电影成为西方娱乐的主要来源。
But for the rest of the 1890s, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill were as popular as ever.
但在 1890 年代余下的时间里，安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley) 和布法罗·比尔 (Buffalo Bill) 一如既往地受欢迎。
All over the country, excited crowds welcomed their arrival.
全国各地，兴奋的人群欢迎他们的到来。
They played 131 cities in 1895 alone.
仅 1895 年，他们就在 131 个城市进行了比赛。
Then, in the fall of 1901, their train left Charlotte, NC, bound for Virginia.
然后，1901 年秋天，他们的火车从北卡罗来纳州夏洛特出发，开往弗吉尼亚州。
It never made it.
它从来没有成功过。
A head-on collision with an onrushing freight killed much of the show's livestock.
与一辆猛冲过来的货物正面相撞，导致大部分牲畜死亡。
The passengers escaped with their lives, but Annie Oakley's spine was injured, requiring surgery.
乘客们侥幸逃脱，但安妮·奥克利的脊椎受伤，需要接受手术。
She decided the time had come to leave the arena, and Buffalo Bill.
她决定是时候离开竞技场和布法罗比尔了。
But it was hard to forsake the spotlight.
但很难放弃聚光灯。
Just a year after the accident, Annie agreed to star in a play written especially for her.
事故发生一年后，安妮同意出演一部专门为她编写的戏剧。
Naturally, she played a western heroine -- capturing bad guys, rescuing innocent victims, and performing her signature shooting stunts to rave reviews.
自然而然地，她扮演了一位西部女英雄——抓捕坏人，拯救无辜受害者，并表演她标志性的射击特技，好评如潮。
The 42-year-old Oakley seemed ready for a new career as an actress, when out of nowhere, on August 11, 1903, headlines screamed of her downfall.
1903 年 8 月 11 日，42 岁的奥克利似乎已经准备好开始新的演员生涯，但突然间，头条新闻报道了她的垮台。
William Randolph Hearst's Chicago newspapers reported that Oakley had stolen a pair of men's pants to pay for cocaine -- that she was a drug addict, now doing time in jail; that she was in a "shattered condition," "destitute" and "pitiful."
威廉·伦道夫·赫斯特的芝加哥报纸报道说，奥克利偷了一条男士裤子来购买可卡因——她是一名吸毒者，目前正在监狱服刑；她处于“破碎的状态”、“贫困”和“可怜”。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: The Associated Press sends it across the country and all these papers pick it up, and Annie is just devastated.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：美联社将其发送到全国各地，所有这些报纸都收到了它，安妮简直崩溃了。
It's like everything she's worked for her whole life to keep this respectable reputation, is shattered.
就好像她一生为保持这个令人尊敬的声誉而努力的一切都破灭了。
Narrator: : The Hearst story was false.
旁白：：赫斯特的故事是假的。
The woman arrested in Chicago was a burlesque dancer posing as Annie Oakley.
在芝加哥被捕的女子是一名冒充安妮·奥克利的滑稽舞者。
But the damage had been done.
但损害已经造成。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: In Annie Oakley's time the threat of the taint of scandal on somebody who was an American hero and who made their fortune by being an American hero that could cost them their livelihood, it could cost them their security.
弗吉尼亚·沙尔夫，历史学家：在安妮·奥克利时代，丑闻污点对美国英雄以及通过成为美国英雄而发家致富的人的威胁可能会导致他们失去生计，可能会导致他们失去安全。
And I think Annie Oakley knew at the time that this newspaper report came out just dragging her in the gutter that this was something that could absolutely ruin her, and she was personally insulted by it.
我想安妮·奥克利当时就知道，这篇报纸的报道只会把她拖进阴沟里，这绝对会毁了她，她个人也因此受到了侮辱。
But I think more that she knew as a businesswoman -- and a very savvy businesswoman -- what the cost of that kind of scandal could be, and she was willing to risk anything to make sure that that didn't happen.
但我认为，作为一名女商人，而且是一位非常精明的女商人，她更了解这种丑闻的代价可能有多大，而且她愿意冒一切风险，以确保这种情况不会发生。
Narrator: : She fired off angry telegrams to the offending newspapers -- "Woman posing as Annie Oakley in Chicago is a fraud...
旁白：：她向违规报纸发出愤怒的电报——“芝加哥冒充安妮·奥克利的女人是个骗子……
contradict at once...
一下子就矛盾了……
someone will pay for this dreadful mistake."
有人将为这个可怕的错误付出代价。”
Most papers quickly retracted the story.
大多数报纸很快就撤回了这篇报道。
Many apologized to Oakley directly.
许多人直接向奥克利道歉。
But that was not enough.
但这还不够。
She brought libel suits against every newspaper that had published the story.
她对每家发表该故事的报纸提起诽谤诉讼。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: She just goes after these newspapers relentlessly, suing them one after the other, you know.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：你知道，她只是无情地追捕这些报纸，一个接一个地起诉它们。
"I've got to clear my name.
“我必须还清我的罪名。
It's not about money." She -- actually, you know, Annie -- who cares so much about money, is spending money to hire fancy lawyers and to -- to prosecute this injustice that's been done to her.
这不是钱的问题。”她——实际上，你知道，安妮——她非常在乎钱，花钱聘请了不起的律师，并起诉对她造成的这种不公正行为。
Narrator: : "That terrible piece ...nearly killed me," she wrote.
旁白：“那个可怕的作品……差点杀了我，”她写道。
"The only thing that kept me alive was the desire to purge my character."
“唯一让我活着的就是净化我性格的愿望。”
Oakley became a woman obsessed.
奥克利对女人着迷。
Over the course of six years, she crisscrossed the country, suing 55 newspapers.
六年来，她走遍全国，起诉了 55 家报纸。
It was the largest libel action the country had ever seen.
这是该国有史以来规模最大的诽谤诉讼。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: : She had fought very hard to earn her own security, to have a good name, to be the kind of person that everybody would see as a role model and as a social icon rather than somebody who was just a dirty, poor person, and somebody who'd be a victim.
弗吉尼亚·沙尔夫（Virginia Scharff），历史学家：她非常努力地奋斗，以赢得自己的安全，拥有一个好名声，成为每个人都将其视为榜样和社会偶像的人，而不是一个肮脏、穷人和受害者。
She was never ever going to be a victim again.
她永远不会再成为受害者。
Narrator: : William Randolph Hearst fought Oakley tooth and nail.
旁白：威廉·伦道夫·赫斯特与奥克利进行了不遗余力的斗争。
He even sent a detective to Greenville, Ohio to dig around in Oakley's past -- sure he could find something to discredit her in court.
他甚至派了一名侦探到俄亥俄州格林维尔挖掘奥克利的过去——确信他能找到一些在法庭上抹黑她的东西。
Annie approached every trial with great care.
安妮对待每一次审判都非常小心。
The courtroom was now her arena.
法庭现在就是她的竞技场。
"Were you ever locked up an a charge of larceny in Chicago?"
“你曾因盗窃罪被关押在芝加哥吗？”
Narrator: : "The girl of the western plains" now dressed mostly in black with demure diamond earrings, her now-grey hair worn up on her head.
旁白：“西部平原的姑娘”现在大多穿着黑色衣服，戴着端庄的钻石耳环，灰色的头发盘在头上。
She was reported to exude an air of "perfect refinement" and "polished courtesy."
据报道，她散发着一种“完美精致”和“优雅礼貌”的气息。
Audio: : "Did you ever say that an uncontrollable appetite for drugs has brought me here?"
音频：：“你有没有说过，是无法控制的毒品欲望把我带到了这里？”
"I don't know what the use of drugs (Overlapping voices) ...have upon your mental feelings?
“我不知道药物的使用（重叠声音）……对你的精神感受有什么影响？
I felt as though I could never possibly face an audience until the wrong was righted...
我觉得除非错误得到纠正，否则我永远不可能面对观众……
I beg your pardon, you're wrong...
对不起，你错了……
of dubious reputation...
名声可疑……
malicious and damaging..."
恶意且具有破坏性……”
"We the jury find in favor of the plaintiff, Mrs. Annie Oakley...
“我们陪审团裁定原告安妮·奥克利夫人胜诉......
find in favor of Annie Oakley..."
发现有利于安妮·奥克利……”
Narrator: : Oakley won 54 of the 55 cases.
旁白：：奥克利赢得了 55 起案件中的 54 起。
Hearst had to pay her $27,000.
赫斯特不得不支付她 27,000 美元。
But most of the awards were much smaller.
但大多数奖项的规模要小得多。
After expenses, she actually lost money over the course of her six-year campaign.
扣除开支后，她在六年的竞选过程中实际上亏损了。
Joy Kasson, Historian: I think her reaction to the inaccurate story in the Hearst newspapers might seem to us really excessive.
乔伊·卡森（Joy Kasson），历史学家：我认为她对赫斯特报纸上不准确的报道的反应在我们看来可能确实太过分了。
She spent so many years contesting and suing one paper after another, for continuing to report an erroneous and insulting story.
多年来，她一直在与一家又一家报纸抗争和起诉，因为他们继续报道错误和侮辱性的故事。
But I think you can understand her deep concern over that -- if you see it in the context of this need to control her self-presentation, to be the person who would define her own image.
但我认为你可以理解她对此的深切关注——如果你把它放在需要控制她的自我表现、成为定义自己形象的人的背景下来看的话。
And being ladylike and being respectable was such an important part of that delicate balancing act.
淑女气质和受人尊敬是这种微妙平衡行为的重要组成部分。
Narrator: : The court battles finally behind her, Annie Oakley -- now 50 -- signed for top dollar with a new Wild West show.
旁白：：法院的斗争终于支持了她，现年 50 岁的安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley) 凭借一部新的《狂野西部》节目以高价签约。
At first she packed in the crowds, but over time the audiences dwindled.
起初她挤满了人群，但随着时间的推移，观众逐渐减少。
Paul Fees, Historian: One of the things that had happened to Annie Oakley by 1910 is that she had become an artifact of the past.
保罗·费斯 (Paul Fees)，历史学家：到 1910 年，安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley) 身上发生的事情之一是，她已经成为过去的一件艺术品。
Her fame was founded on -- on shooting.
她的名气是建立在射击之上的。
Her fame was founded on a skill that had been necessary in the winning of the West, but was now no longer so necessary, or even so salable.
她的名声建立在赢得西方胜利所必需的技能之上，但现在不再那么必要，甚至不再那么畅销。
The whole medium that had made her a star had lost its audience to the movies.
使她成为明星的整个媒体已经失去了电影的观众。
Narrator: : Oakley retired in 1913, but was uneasy leading a life of traditional domesticity in her new home in Maryland.
旁白：奥克利于 1913 年退休，但她对在马里兰州的新家过着传统的家庭生活感到不安。
Annie, Frank joked, was a "rotten housekeeper."
弗兰克开玩笑说，安妮是一个“烂管家”。
The Butlers sold the house and went back on the road -- but now it was for pleasure, following the seasons to pursue their passions for guns and hunting.
巴特勒夫妇卖掉了房子，重新上路——但现在他们是为了享乐，随着季节的变化去追求他们对枪支和狩猎的热情。
Still, Annie Oakley never left the public eye.
尽管如此，安妮·奥克利从未离开过公众的视线。
She used her celebrity to encourage women to be physically fit and taught thousands to shoot.
她利用自己的名气鼓励女性保持身体健康，并教数千人射击。
Mary Zeiss Stange, Professor of Women's Studies: She was a very early advocate of women's use of firearms for self-defense.
玛丽·蔡斯·斯坦奇（Mary Zeiss Stange），女性研究教授：她是女性使用枪支自卫的早期倡导者。
She believed that it was thoroughly appropriate for a woman to have a gun at her bedside, and she also argued that women, especially if they had to be out and about alone, ought to think seriously about carrying firearms for self-protection.
她认为，女性在床边放一把枪是完全合适的，她还认为，女性，特别是当她们必须独自外出时，应该认真考虑携带枪支以进行自我保护。
Shirl Kasper, Biographer: This is when she starts sounding like a feminist, you know.
Shirl Kasper，传记作者：从那时起，她开始听起来像个女权主义者，你知道。
"I think women should have the right to protect themselves and carry a gun." She even appears in the Cincinnati newspaper article, showing how to hide your gun under an umbrella so no one will know you have it.
“我认为女性应该有保护自己和携带枪支的权利。”她甚至出现在辛辛那提报纸的文章中，展示如何将枪藏在雨伞下，这样就没有人知道你拥有它。
Then if someone attacks you, you can pull it out.
然后如果有人攻击你，你可以把它拉出来。
Narrator: : Even in retirement, Oakley walked a fine line between being the powerful, self-sufficient woman, and the refined, Victorian lady.
旁白：即使在退休后，奥克利仍然在强大、自给自足的女性和优雅、维多利亚时代的女士之间保持着微妙的界限。
She had once offered to lead "a company of 50 lady sharpshooters" to fight in the Spanish American war.
她曾主动提出率领“一支由 50 名女神枪手组成的连队”参加美西战争。
But for the most part, she left politics to men.
但在大多数情况下，她把政治留给了男性。
Annie Oakley didn't even think women should be allowed to vote.
安妮·奥克利甚至认为不应该允许女性投票。
Mary Zeiss Stange, Professor of Women's Studies: Although she did not espouse women's suffrage and she didn't talk about all of the issues that were important to the so-called "new women" of her time, arguably, Annie was living a lot of the values that her feminist sisters were arguing for.
玛丽·蔡司·斯坦奇，妇女研究教授：尽管安妮不支持妇女选举权，也没有谈论对她那个时代所谓的“新女性”来说重要的所有问题，但可以说，安妮践行了她的女权主义姐妹们所主张的许多价值观。
She was one of the first really hard core advocates for equal pay for equal work.
她是同工同酬的第一批真正坚定的核心倡导者之一。
She just couldn't go that extra step, to argue openly that she agreed with feminists, and perhaps she didn't.
她只是无法迈出额外的一步，公开争论她同意女权主义者的观点，也许她不同意。
Perhaps she didn't see herself as needing feminism to achieve what she had been able to achieve.
也许她并不认为自己需要女权主义来实现她所取得的成就。
Narrator: : One afternoon in 1922, a charity event drew thousands to a Long Island race track.
旁白： 1922 年的一个下午，一场慈善活动吸引了数千人来到长岛的赛马场。
The main attraction was a little woman with white hair.
最引人注目的是一个白发的小女人。
She skipped into the arena, adjusted her spectacles, and signaled her husband of 46 years to begin.
她跳进竞技场，调整了一下眼镜，示意与她结婚46年的丈夫开始。
"Miss Annie Oakley was the hit of the afternoon," wrote The New York Herald .
“安妮·奥克利小姐是当天下午的热门人物，”《纽约先驱报》写道。
"She said she felt a little out of practice, but old timers said that during the 16 years she was with Buffalo Bill she never gave a more entertaining exhibition." ( The New York Herald , July 4, 1922)
“她说她觉得有点不习惯，但老前辈们说，在她和布法罗比尔在一起的 16 年里，她从来没有举办过比这更有趣的表演。” （《纽约先驱报》，1922 年 7 月 4 日）
A car accident that year shattered her ankles and fractured her hip.
那年的一场车祸，导致她的脚踝骨折，臀部骨折。
She would never again walk without a leg brace.
如果没有腿部支架，她再也不会走路了。
It was over now.
现在一切都结束了。
Annie had her shooting medals melted down, and donated the money to charity.
安妮将她的射击奖牌熔化，并将所得的钱捐给了慈善机构。
Some believe that lead poisoning -- brought on by years of handling lead shot -- was the cause.
一些人认为，铅中毒——因多年处理铅弹而引起——是原因。
On November 3rd, 1926, Annie Oakley died at home in her sleep.
1926 年 11 月 3 日，安妮·奥克利在家中睡梦中去世。
It was one of the rare times that Frank could not be at her side.
这是弗兰克不能在她身边的罕见时刻之一。
He himself had fallen ill while traveling in Michigan.
他本人在密歇根旅行时病倒了。
Eighteen days later, Frank, too, was gone.
十八天后，弗兰克也走了。
They were buried beside each other in Greenville, Ohio, not far from Annie's childhood home.
他们被并排埋葬在俄亥俄州格林维尔，距离安妮童年的家不远。
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Wilson, Firearms Historian: The career, the achievements, the magic of Annie Oakley is so extraordinary that you cannot imagine that anybody could have created a character like that.
威尔逊，枪械历史学家：安妮·奥克利的职业生涯、成就和魔力是如此非凡，你无法想象任何人都能创造出这样的角色。
It had to be a real person that did what she did, and had a 66-year life of incredible experiences and achievements and adventures.
一定是一个真实的人做了她所做的事情，并且拥有 66 年的人生，充满了令人难以置信的经历、成就和冒险。
That has no match in American history.
这在美国历史上是无与伦比的。
Mary Zeiss Stange, Professor of Women's Studies: If Annie Oakley were simply the cowgirl or simply the sharpshooter or simply the proper Victorian girl, she probably would have been forgotten a long time ago.
玛丽·蔡斯·斯坦奇，女性研究教授：如果安妮·奥克利只是一个女牛仔，或者只是一个神枪手，或者只是一个典型的维多利亚时代女孩，那么她可能很久以前就被遗忘了。
But she's such a complicated package -- she's constantly challenging us to think and rethink our ideas about what it means to be female in American society.
但她是一个如此复杂的群体——她不断地挑战我们思考和重新思考我们关于女性在美国社会意味着什么的想法。
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Wilmeth, Theatre Historian: The great mythology of Annie Oakley came later when she became a subject of popular culture, probably best known in Annie Get Your Gun, which is a total disruption of what her career and life was really like.
威尔梅斯，剧院历史学家：当安妮·奥克利成为流行文化的主题时，她的伟大神话出现了，最著名的可能是《安妮拿起你的枪》，这完全颠覆了她的职业和生活的真实面貌。
Nonetheless, the real Annie Oakley created an indelible image as the self-reliant, empowering figure at a time when women just didn't do what she did.
尽管如此，在女性不做她所做的事情的时代，真正的安妮·奥克利创造了一个不可磨灭的自力更生、赋权人物形象。
And she managed to do it and continued to be very much the lady.
她成功地做到了这一点，并且继续保持着一位女士的形象。
Virginia Scharff, Historian: There's never been anybody like Annie Oakley, there's never been somebody who had both the power of the gun and this power of kind of sweetness and purity that makes her safe, even though she's holding that gun in her hand.
维吉尼亚·沙尔夫，历史学家：从来没有人像安妮·奥克利一样，从来没有人既拥有枪的力量，又拥有这种甜蜜和纯洁的力量，即使她手里拿着那把枪，也能让她安全。
Browse a selection of posters promoting Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
浏览精选的宣传安妮·奥克利和布法罗·比尔的狂野西部表演的海报。
What was it like for Annie Oakley to be an international star in a world dominated by men?
在男性主导的世界里，安妮·奥克利成为国际明星是什么感觉？
Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood and become a superstar.
安妮·奥克利凭借她惊人的枪法摆脱了贫困的童年，成为了超级巨星。
Although he never expected to be shooting against a woman, Frank Butler accepted defeat from Annie Oakley graciously.
尽管弗兰克·巴特勒从未想到会与女性开枪，但他还是优雅地接受了安妮·奥克利的失败。
Sitting Bull was the political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn.
坐牛是苏族战士的政治和精神领袖，他在著名的小大角战役中摧毁了卡斯特将军的军队。
This brassy Californian emerged as Annie Oakley's only serious female rival in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show.
这位黄铜色的加州人成为安妮·奥克利在布法罗·比尔·科迪的狂野西部秀中唯一严肃的女性竞争对手。
How accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show?
布法罗比尔科迪的狂野西部表演有多准确？
It was Annie Oakley's time abroad that helped make Oakley a star at home.
正是安妮·奥克利在国外的经历让奥克利成为了国内的明星。
Annie Oakley won fame and fortune as the little lady from Ohio who never missed a shot.
安妮·奥克利（Annie Oakley）作为来自俄亥俄州的一位从未失手的小女士而赢得了名声和财富。
In 1894, Thomas Edison filmed sharpshooter Annie Oakley in his Black Maria studio.
1894 年，托马斯·爱迪生在他的 Black Maria 工作室拍摄了神枪手安妮·奥克利 (Annie Oakley)。
Watch the opening scene of Annie Oakley .
观看安妮·奥克利的开场场景。