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The Notorious Life of Ned Buntline: A Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and the Creation of Buffalo Bill
256Overview
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 contradictionsa 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781493047536 |
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Publisher: | TwoDot |
Publication date: | 06/01/2020 |
Pages: | 256 |
Sales rank: | 534,534 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Author's Note vii
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Death of a Legend Maker 1
Chapter 2 Creation of a Legend Maker 9
Chapter 3 The Seminole War 17
Chapter 4 "The Captain's Pig" and a Problem in Nashville 25
Chapter 5 "That Odious Rascal" 37
Chapter 6 Libel, Nativism, and the Astor Place Riot 49
Chapter 7 Western Expansion and the St. Louis Riot 63
Chapter 8 The Widow Swart 73
Chapter 9 Adirondacks, Eva, Sarah, and Kate 87
Chapter 10 Civil War 101
Chapter 11 Chappaqua and California 117
Chapter 12 Three Wives and Buffalo Bill 129
Chapter 13 Hazel Eye 145
Chapter 14 Ever the Fourth of July 157
Chapter 15 Ned Buntline's America 171
Notes 181
Index 203
About the Author 213