Becoming An Outdoors-Woman

Tom LounsburyFriends of ELO, Spring Fling

By:  Tom Lounsbury. For a long time, hunting especially was pretty much a “men only” pastime,
although there were certainly exceptions, women who ignored status quo and
went hunting. Annie Oakley is a prime example, who ventured into this
atmosphere at an early age when her father died, leaving her mother and large
family destitute. She would start hunting, first to feed her family, and then to
provide an income (market hunting was legal in her era). Annie would sell game
to a growing list of customers and because ammunition cost money, she learned
to make each shot count, causing her to … Read More