Hailed by 'Gene Autry assorted screen villains with her Single Action Army Colt. Gail thus achieved an additional measure of prominence by becoming the first female to command the nominal lead in a western TV series. For this, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Her daughter Terrie Davis was born in 1952.
On October 28, 2004, she was Inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.
According to Holly George Warren s book, "Public Cowboy No. 1", Davis had an affair with Gene Autry , who discovered her and put her in many of his westerns and produced her starring series "Annie Oakley" . The affair lasted for many years.
Profiled in the book "Johnny Mack Browns Saddle Gals" by Bobby Copeland.
[1982] Annie Oakley had to deal with the same ruthless characters -,rustlers and killers - that the cowboys dealt with. And she did it,without ever killing one of them.
My father was a doctor back in Little Rock. He liked to go hunting with,a . 22 rifle, so I learned early how to shoot.