1918 BUFFALO BILLS WILD WEST SHOW PULP MAGAZINE - BUFFALO BILL WEEKLY NO. 297

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Rare and original, 1918 William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Subject Pulp Magazine / Dime Novel by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh (successor to Colonel Prentiss Ingraham) from the Weekly Series titled "New Buffalo Bill Weekly". Published by Street & Smith, New York.
Offered here is the May 18, 1918 Issue of “New Buffalo Bill Weekly” titled “Buffalo Bill and the Lost Indian”. This is issue No. 297 of the Series that was “Devoted To Far West Life”.
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 Buffalo Bill and a “Frontiersman” engaged in hand to hand battle with two Native American Indians on the porch of a building.
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.
Prentiss Ingraham died in 1904 while authoring the “New Buffalo Bill Weekly” stories. He was succeeded initially by Edward C. Taylor then George H. Coomer and finally by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh who created the weekly stories through 1924.
This rare and wonderful, Buffalo Bill Weekly Pulp Magazine is bound in its original, very delicate illustrated paper wraps which are intact, tight and generally well preserved with some edge wear and light age toning. The spine has been reinforced a very long time ago with a neatly sewn thread. The interior pages are complete and well preserved with uniform dark age toning and a chip at the lower, outside corner to the final 10 leaves. 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 very good condition especially given the quality of the stock it was printed on.
A very rare and fascinating, 1918 William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Subject Pulp Magazine / Dime Novel from the Weekly Series titled "The New Buffalo Bill Weekly” and a fantastic addition to any collection!!!
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