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Oakley’s ‘bidder’ legacy

Get your Annie gun!

Relatives of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley are offering up a collection of items — including her guns, Stetson hat, letters and photographs — in an auction that experts say hits the mark for its breadth and sentimental value.

Tomorrow, Heritage Auctions will offer 100 Oakley-related items in Dallas, including a 12-gauge shotgun expected to fetch $100,000.

Oakley gained fame in the 1880s and 1890s for her shooting skills in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. She died in 1926 at the age of 66, but has remained a pop-culture icon.

“The country kind of took her to heart,” said Tom Slater, Heritage’s director of Americana auctions.

Her life story inspired a Hollywood movie and Broadway’s “Annie Get Your Gun.”

“She was just sparkling as a public performer,” said Paul Fees, former senior curator at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo., with whom Heritage consulted on the auction.