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…mehr
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 Americäs past forcibly displayed by white, Protestant manhood. Murder, Betrayal, and Buffalo Bill 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.
Julia Bricklin is the author of a forthcoming biography of female sharpshooter Lillian Frances Smith (University of Oklahoma Press: April 2017). 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, and spent several years contributing to Forbes.com. Bricklin grew up in southern California, obtained a journalism degree at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and worked in the TV/film industry for fifteen years before obtaining her Master¿s degree in history at Cal State Northridge. In addition to serving as associate editor of California History, the publication of the California Historical Society, she is a professor of history at Glendale Community College. Bricklin¿s interest in historical figures of the American West stems from her extensive collection of books, and from decades of watching spaghetti Westerns with her father.
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