Prentiss Ingraham

Prentiss Ingraham
Prentiss Ingraham (1843–1904) was a prolific American author, best known for his adventure and dime novels. He wrote over 600 novels, often under various pseudonyms, and gained popularity for his thrilling tales of the Wild West, pirates, and soldiers. Ingraham is particularly famous for contributing to the "Buffalo Bill" series, helping to cement the legend of the frontier scout. Some of his notable works include "The Masked Spy" and "Buffalo Bill, The King of Border Men."

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It is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of the New York Weekly. It was a dingy little office on Rose Street, New York, but the breath of the great outdoors stirred there when these old-timers got together. As a result of these... more...

CHAPTER I. PROLOGUE. That Truth is, by far, stranger than Fiction, the lessons of our daily lives teach us who dwell in the marts of civilization, and therefore we cannot wonder that those who live in scenes where the rifle, revolver and knife are in constant use, to protect and take life, can strange tales tell of thrilling perils met and subdued, and romantic incidents occurring that are far removed... more...