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Notorious Life of Ned Buntline Julia Bricklin

Notorious Life of Ned Buntline By Julia Bricklin

Notorious Life of Ned Buntline by Julia Bricklin


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The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline captures the likeness of a man who sparked an American legend but whose own scandalous life somehow escaped history's limelight.

Notorious Life of Ned Buntline Summary

Notorious Life of Ned Buntline: A Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and the Creation of Buffalo Bill by Julia Bricklin

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.

About Julia Bricklin

Julia Bricklin is the author of the only biography of female sharpshooter Lillian Frances Smith (University of Oklahoma Press, April 2017) and of trailblazing reporter Nell Campbell, aka Polly Pry (TwoDot Books, September 2018). She has authored a dozen articles in well-respected commercial and academic journals, such as Civil War Times, Financial History, Wild West, True West and California History.

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NPB9781493047536
9781493047536
1493047531
Notorious Life of Ned Buntline: A Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and the Creation of Buffalo Bill by Julia Bricklin
New
Hardback
Stackpole Books
2021-01-28
256
Runner-up for Will Rogers Medallion Award, Western Biographies 2021 (United States)
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