Note: In this webmaster's opinion, Annie's stories suffer a severe drop in quality once they are moved from the anthology Wild Western title to the backup on various other western titles focused on particular heroes such as Two-Gun or Tex Morgan. I would recommend reading only the first four, though all of her appearances are recorded and summarized here for completeness' sake.
Annie and her boyfriend Slim Smith are riding to town when she discovers her horse needs his shoe looked at. Slim warns her away from the new blacksmith, Pete Grimm, who is a well known woman-hater. Undeterred, Annie asks for his services and Grimm refuses her, saying that he hates women and they're nothing but trouble. Their confrontation is interrupted by three strangers who steal Grimm's money and flirt with Annie. Flirting back, she pretends to take them up on their offer to join their band. One by one she picks them off by getting them alone and hitting them over the head. The last man is ready for her, but she overpowers him by biting his hand. Annie brings the would-be outlaws and the money back to town, curing Grimm of his misogyny.
Annie and Slim pass a man named Josiah Cleek selling real estate in a town called Starling Wells. Although Slim expresses interest, Annie recognizes him from a wanted poster as a swindler and confronts him, demanding that he give people's money back. The townspeople do not believe her because she is a woman, and she rides out to see Starling Wells for herself. She finds it to be underdeveloped, having only shacks. She confronts Josiah again, who demands an investigation to prove that he is honest. The next morning, a delegation of townsfolk, Josiah, Slim and Annie ride to Starling Wells, where they find beautiful houses waiting for them. However, Annie realizes they are fake cardboard fronts. She keeps Josiah and his accomplice from escaping and returns all the money- including Slim's, who had bought a share in the real estate while Annie was away.
Annie and Slim are once again riding towards town, passing four reward posters along the way. Annie points out to Slim that all the wanted posters show men and that women could run things better than men. When Slim protests, she claims women are more honest and that there are no female outlaws. They reach town, and the Sheriff arrests Annie for shooting the cashier at the Wells Fargo during a robbery. Annie protests she is innocent, but an eyewitness insists she was the culprit. Slim starts a fist fight on her behalf, and is also jailed as her accomplice. Annie concludes the only way to prove her innocence is to find the actual culprit. That night, the female bandit and two accomplices rob the Last Chance Saloon. Annie escapes jail by picking the lock with her hair pin. Slim watches her leave, bemoaning that he doesn't understand her. Annie takes a horse and chases the bandits, determined to clear her reputation. Approaching the gang, Annie appeals to the leader, claiming that she is inspired by her style. The leader offers Annie a lit cigarette and offers to let her in on the gang's secret. However, Annie has already realized the secret - the leader is actually a man posing as a woman- and throws the cigarette back in the leader's face, taking her hostage. She disarms the gang and warns them that she will shoot to kill next time before bringing them in to the Sheriff. She tells him she realized the bandit leader- actually the male bandit known as "Pretty Face"- was female when she lit her own cigarette instead of having one of the men do it for her.
Annie is bucking a bronco when she is called over and informed that the school teacher has left her post to get hitched. Although Annie states she is not the book-learning kind, she agrees to stand in as a substitute until the new teacher arrives. One of the students refuses to listen to her, stating he only obeys a man with a gun. Annie shoots his suspenders off to prove she deserves his respect, and continues with the lesson. After the class ends, Annie is studying at the school house when she is surprised by two outlaws, the Bascom Boys, who need a place to lay low. They tie her up, but she slips her bonds and cuts herself free, overpowering them with brute strength and the element of surprise. When a third rider comes up to the school house, Annie assumes he is also a member of the gang and lassos him. However, he turns out to be the new school teacher.
Annie's in town for a resupply when she comes across her nemesis, Grizzly Williams. She prepares for a gunfight, but Grizzly tries to sweet talk Annie calling her his "sweet li'l rosebud". Angered, she shoots his hat off but decides to spare his life. As she stalks away, Grizzly expresses confusion because of the love letter she wrote him. Bystanders Cal and Slim encourage Grizzly to read the letter out loud. He does, and Cal and Slim encourage Grizzly to get cleaned up and wear a tie to court Annie that evening. After Grizzly leaves, Cal and Slim laugh at both Annie and Grizzly, as they were the ones who wrote the letter. Grizzly approches Annie and she draws on him, telling him to leave. Grizzly tells her about a second letter, and as Cal and Slim hide behind a corner, Annie asks him to read it. Enraged, Annie shoots at Grizzly's feet, scaring him off. Cal and Slim burst into laughter. Hearing them, Annie realizes they are the ones who probably wrote the letter. She scares them off with wide shots, but after cooling off some decides to have fun with it. She finds Cal and Slim hiding on a roof and orders them down, then they all ride off to see Grizzly. She uses her strength to "perform" wifely duties such as sweeping dust all over Grizzly, smacking the dust off, and repairing loose boards- causing them to fall on him. She scares Grizzly off with wild shots, then chases Cal and Slim to the pig sty. They protest that they were only trying to find Annie a husband, but she insists that they stay there for the time being.
After criticizing the mayor, Square John, who is up for re-election, Slim encourages Annie to run for office. Slim enters her name while she gives a speech. After she shoots the hat off a heckler, the vote in favor of Annie is unanimous. She learns that Slim entered her name as the dog catcher. Enraged at being made a fool of, she rounds up Slim and the mayor and traps them both in the back of the cart.
Visiting the local fair, Annie tries her hand at a shooting game and learns it's rigged against the players.
Once again, Annie must stand in for the local teacher, who left her job to get married. Annie scares off the men who keep marrying the new teachers, only to learn that she'll have to keep filling in as the teacher until someone new fills the position.
Annie is known to carry the following:
Annie is a skilled rider, able to keep up with outlaws on the move quite easily-Wild West (1948) #1-B and to buck broncos. -Wild Western (1948) #4-E She is also known for her abnormal strength.-Tex Morgan (1948) #3-D She is strong enough to knock a man unconscious with a single blow from a pistol butt -Wild West (1948) #1-B and to bulldog a steer in twelve seconds. Annie carries a revolver and is a good enough shot to knock items out of people's hands without hurting them. She is also skilled with a lasso.-Wild West (1948) #2-B. She can pick a lock with her hairpin. -Wild Western (1948) #3-C