Author: Ned BuntlinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Ned Buntline's Life Yarn
Author: Ned BuntlineLife and Adventures of "Ned Buntline" [pseud.]
Author: Frederick Eugene PondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing stories
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline
Author: Julia BricklinPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149304754X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821–1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars estimate that he wrote at least four hundred dime novels over his lifetime, and perhaps as many as six hundred. While he is best known for discovering William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) and making the irrepressible scout a star, Judson—by that time—had already lived five lifetimes himself: he had fought Seminole Indians in Florida; started and bankrupted three newspapers; published dozens of successful novels; agitated for the Know-Nothing party; and fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. Along the way, the fiery redheaded, gray-eyed writer lectured extensively about temperance between drinking bouts. He married eight women, seduced at least one other, and cavorted with prostitutes, one of whom beat him physically and legally. It wasn’t until 1869 that, en route home from a temperance speaking tour in California, he met Cody in Nebraska, while trying to make contact with another Western star, “Wild Bill” Hickok. Judson’s time with his last three wives overlapped his time with Cody. Their subsequent fight over Judson’s Civil War pension provides not only a unique glimpse into the mind of a narcissistic genius, but also a panoramic view of America’s past forcibly displayed by white, Protestant manhood. The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline captures the likeness of a man whose life was a landscape littered with contradictions--a man whose readers often forgave his Jekyll-and-Hyde behavior because of his inventive portrayal of a country trying to subdue the last of its natural landscapes and make sense of its teeming cities. It will be, at last, an open-eyed look at the man who sparked an American legend but whose own scandalous life somehow escaped history's limelight.
The Knickerbocker
Author: The Knickerbacker
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
To Swear like a Sailor
Author: Paul A. GiljePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521762359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
The Knickerbocker
Author: Charles Fenno HoffmanPublisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
American Monthly Knickerbocker
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
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Author: Yankee Hill