 The performer crowds really turned out to see was not a he, but a she, the sure shot so-called marvel of the West, Annie Oakley. Now, at some point in Annie's impressive display of marksmanship, Bill Cody would walk out and offer a free pass to anybody who could outshoot her. And show after show, the sharpest eyes and the steadiest hands in Chicago came forward, but none succeeded. But then one day, a boy stood up.