Globe Pequot / TwoDot
Pages: 256
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4930-4753-6 • Hardback • June 2020 • $26.95 • (£20.95)
978-1-4930-4754-3 • eBook • June 2020 • $26.00 • (£19.95)
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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Julia Bricklin’s well-written biography reintroduces readers to Edward Zane Carroll Judson, popularly known by the pen name “Ned Buntline.” This lively narrative details the life and exploits of a bigamist, an imbibing temperance speaker, a rioter, a politician, and a famed raconteur who popularized legendary western heroes like Buffalo Bill through his sensational dime novels. Bricklin reveals that in many cases, Ned Buntline led a life that no dime novelist could fictionalize.
Jeremy M. Johnston, Tate Endowed Chair of Western History, Buffalo Bill Center of the West
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