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Line 17: + + − Though Annie's life is one of considerable folklore, by 1901 she had returned to Oklahoma, where she married Earl Frost of Perry. The couple had two sons, Robert C. Frost (1903-1993) and Carlos D. Frost, before they divorced in 1909. The museum in Guthrie maintains that Annie married a second time -- to Whitmore R. Roach (1879-1947), a native [[Texas|Texan]], veteran of [[World War I]], and a painting contractor in [[Oklahoma City]], where they lived after 1912, having resided the preceding two years in [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]. This "Emma McDoulet Roach," as reads the tombstone in Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City, died in 1978, just a few weeks shy of her nineth-sixth birthday. Her newspaper obituary makes no mention of the "Cattle Annie" days or even the first name "Anna" but uses the reduced "Emma" from "Emmaline". The obituary indicates that she had been a bookkeeper in her later working career. Her services were held in the Olivet [[Baptist]] Church in Oklahoma City, of which she was a member. She was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.<ref name=fgrave/>+ − −
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==A short life of crime==
==A short life of crime==
Anna McDoulet was born in Lawrence in Douglas County in eastern [[Kansas]],<ref name=fgrave/> to James C. and Rebekah McDoulet. She was one of eight children. The McDoulets moved to Coyville in Wilson County in southeastern Kansas, when Anna was four years of age. The child worked as a dishwasher in a hotel and performed other odd jobs whenever they were available. When she was twelve, the family moved to the Otoe Reservation near Skiatook, north of [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]]. It was in the northern Oklahoma Territory where her outlaw exploits began. Annie and her friend, Little Britches, became enchanted with popular accounts of the Bill Doolin gang, stories available through dime novelists like [[Ned Buntline]], particularly known for his promotion of [[Buffalo Bill Cody]] as a western hero and showman.<ref name=lbrit/>
Anna McDoulet was born in Lawrence in Douglas County in eastern [[Kansas]],<ref name=fgrave/> to James C. and Rebekah McDoulet. She was one of eight children. The McDoulets moved to Coyville in Wilson County in southeastern Kansas, when Anna was four years of age. The child worked as a dishwasher in a hotel and performed other odd jobs whenever they were available. When she was twelve, the family moved to the Otoe Reservation near Skiatook, north of [[Tulsa]], [[Oklahoma]]. It was in the northern Oklahoma Territory where her outlaw exploits began. Annie and her friend, Little Britches, became enchanted with popular accounts of the Bill Doolin gang, stories available through dime novelists like [[Ned Buntline]], particularly known for his promotion of [[Buffalo Bill Cody]] as a western hero and showman.<ref name=lbrit/>
==Annie's later years==
==Annie's later years==
Though Annie's life is one of considerable folklore, by 1901 she had returned to Oklahoma, where she married Earl Frost of Perry. The couple had two sons, Robert C. Frost (1903-1993) and Carlos D. Frost, before they divorced in 1909. The museum in Guthrie maintains that Annie married a second time—to Whitmore R. Roach (1879-1947), a native [[Texas|Texan]], veteran of [[World War I]], and a painting contractor in [[Oklahoma City]], where they lived after 1912, having resided the preceding two years in [[Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]. This "Emma McDoulet Roach," as reads the tombstone in Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City, died in 1978, just a few weeks shy of her nineth-sixth birthday. Her newspaper obituary makes no mention of the "Cattle Annie" days or even the first name "Anna" but uses the reduced "Emma" from "Emmaline". The obituary indicates that she had been a bookkeeper in her later working career. Her services were held in the Olivet [[Baptist]] Church in Oklahoma City, of which she was a member. She was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary.<ref name=fgrave/>
Meanwhile, Little Britches also served a short sentence at the reformatory in Framingham, but her whereabouts thereafter remains an unsolved mystery.<ref name=lbrit/> The syndicated television series, ''Stories of the Century'', starring and narrated by Jim Davis, maintains in a 1954 episode that Little Britches, played by Gloria Winters, was last seen performing charity work in a New York City slum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0710958/|title=''Stories of the Century'': "Little Britches", June 17, 1954|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref> Other reports indicate that Little Britches returned to Oklahoma, married, reared a family, and led an exemplary life in Tulsa.<ref name=lbrit/>
Meanwhile, Little Britches also served a short sentence at the reformatory in Framingham, but her whereabouts thereafter remains an unsolved mystery.<ref name=lbrit/> The syndicated television series, ''Stories of the Century'', starring and narrated by Jim Davis, maintains in a 1954 episode that Little Britches, played by Gloria Winters, was last seen performing charity work in a New York City slum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0710958/|title=''Stories of the Century'': "Little Britches", June 17, 1954|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref>Other reports indicate that Little Britches returned to Oklahoma, married, reared a family, and led an exemplary life in Tulsa.<ref name=lbrit/>
In the film, directed by Lamont Johnson, Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane are joined in their portrayals of Cattle Annie and Little Britches by Burt Lancaster as an historically inaccurate and much older Bill Doolin, Rod Steiger as Marshal Bill Tilghman, Scott Glenn as William M. "Bill" Dalton, and Buck Taylor as the outlaw Dynamite Dick, presumably Dan Clifton, or "Dynamite Dan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082145/fullcredits|title=''Cattle Annie and Little Britches''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 27, 2012}}</ref>
In the film, directed by Lamont Johnson, Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane are joined in their portrayals of Cattle Annie and Little Britches by Burt Lancaster as an historically inaccurate and much older Bill Doolin, Rod Steiger as Marshal Bill Tilghman, Scott Glenn as William M. "Bill" Dalton, and Buck Taylor as the outlaw Dynamite Dick, presumably Dan Clifton, or "Dynamite Dan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082145/fullcredits|title=''Cattle Annie and Little Britches''|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 27, 2012}}</ref>