1910 BUFFALO BILLS WILD WEST SHOW PULP MAGAZINE - BUFFALO BILL STORIES NO. 481

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Rare and original, 1910 William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Gordon William “Pawnee Bill” Lilly Subject Pulp Magazine / Dime Novel by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham from the Weekly Series titled "The Buffalo Bill Stories". Published by Street & Smith, New York.
Offered here is the July 30, 1910 Issue of “The Buffalo Bill Stories” titled “Buffalo Bill’s Ultimatum or Facing Terrors with Pawnee Bill”. This is issue No. 481 of the Series that was “Devoted To Far West Life”.
In 1910 Buffalo Bill Cody had combined his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” with Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show titled “Pawnee Bill’s Far East” into an even larger extravaganza that toured the United States. Apparently, the author of the Buffalo Bill Stories Pulp Magazine also added Pawnee Bill to the story line of the Weekly publication and, in fact, the same conjoined portrait of “The Two Bills” that appeared on posters and programs for the Traveling Wild West Show graces the cover of the Magazine.
This wonderful, paper bound, Comic Book style publication measures approx. 8" by 11" and contains 32 pages plus the original, delicate paper wraps. The front cover features a fantastic all over, chromolithograph image depicting an Indian Brave hanging precariously above a deep rock canyon. Pawnee Bill is seen at the edge of the canyon above the Brave. Bill has thrown a lasso and snared the Indian by his legs and appears to be about to same his life.
Pulp Fiction Magazines and Dime Novels such as this one presented a larger than life picture of the storied life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody that blended fact with fiction creating a picture of the life and adventures of the man who became the embodiment of the Hero of the American West.
During the Civil War Prentiss Ingraham served in the Confederate Army where he rose to the rank of Colonel. He was wounded and captured at Fort Hudson. He escaped only to be wounded for a second time at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864. During the war, he served in Withers’ Mississippi Regiment, and he attained the rank of lieutenant. He then became commander of scouts in Ross’s Brigade of the Texas cavalry When the war ended, Ingraham decided to live the life of a soldier of fortune. He served under Juarez in the Mexican rebels’ revolution against Maximillian. He also served in Crete against the Turks, in the Austrian army during the Austro-Prussian War, in Egypt with the Khedive's army, as a colonel in the Cuban army, and as a captain in the Cuban navy. While fighting for the Cubans against Spain, he was captured and sentenced to death. Once again, however, he escaped his persecutors
After his career as a soldier ended, Ingraham began his writing in 1870,while he was in London. At first he wrote satiric sketches of the British social scene. However, this endeavor did not succeed. He moved to New York City and married Rose Langley, who was also an author at the time. In New York City, he began writing dime and half-dime novels. Then, in 1881, he went west (Lloyd 252). There, he met “Buffalo Bill” Cody, who hired Ingraham as an advance agent for the Wild West Show. Ingraham later wrote many novels on based on the life of Cody as well as a biography about him. Ingraham is perhaps most famous for this romanticized version of the life of "Buffalo Bill."
Throughout his career, Ingraham wrote a total of six hundred novels and four hundred novelettes. He was famous for being able to write so many words in such little time. He once wrote a seventy-thousand word novel in a week and even produced the manuscript of a thirty-five thousand word novel in twenty-four hours. However, this "speed of composition did not allow for niceties of plot, neither did it permit subtlety of character. Indians are invariably treacherous, foreigners foolish, beautiful women good". Nevertheless, cowboys themselves began to act and dress the way they were described in Ingraham’s widespread novels. "Ingraham helped start what was to become the most powerful and characteristic of American myths" (Robertson 253-254). Known as the King of Dime Novels, Prentiss Ingraham is an author who will be forever remembered for the image he created of the American West.
This rare and wonderful, Buffalo Bill Stories Pulp Magazine is bound in its original, very delicate illustrated paper wraps which are intact and tight and exceptionally well preserved with with just a hint of light edge wear. The interior pages are complete and also exceptionally well preserved. These Pulp Magazines were printed on a highly acidic paper stock that was prone to become brittle and easily damaged. The Magazine offered here has survived in excellent condition with no significant wear and no damage of any kind.
A very rare and fascinating, 1910William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Gordon William “Pawnee Bill” Lilly Subject Pulp Magazine / Dime Novel by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham from the Weekly Series titled "The Buffalo Bill Stories” and a fantastic addition to any collection!!!
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