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This Girl ft Crack Shot.Grace Olive Vanest is the. best woman rifle shot 1ft Indian Territory. She has won in e very contest in which she has engaged and no w^r man now* disputes • her claim. .; t;This girl is only sixteen years old.She is a Euchee Indian and is a student in the muche Misstoni school near Sapulpa.. She is very -athletic and is captain of the crack Indian basket ball team of the same school. She shows her Indian blopd plainly -In* her haIV and complexion^ but not otherwise. She dresses like a whiteschool girl of her own age and hasa good education. ,She has handled a rifle ever sinceshe was old enough to lift the armto her shoulder, and she does not remember the time when,' she cou]^ notshoot. Her favorite rifle is a 38 ; Winchestetr repeater and wjt^Jt she takes ehahces'along W'lth- the ' shots in tfcat section, including the v men. / She; can *hlt - a-t dollar - at fifty . yards; every, time and. seldom misses It at lOp yards. . She joyes .target *:practice, hut does* not donfthe herself to practice,ehpotin? and MW '~goes to the woods with her Winches- y ter an^returhs with a -lot of .game. Nearly all the members of her family have been ^ifle %hpja fndshe haa lnherlted lheir prowess
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New State Tribune
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1907
Page 5
Full Page
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