1. Ned Buntline moved with his parents to Bethany, Pennsylvania in 1826, then to Philadelphia in 1834.
26 Facts About Ned Buntline
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Ned Buntline's father Levi Carroll Judson was a lawyer and wanted his son to be a clergyman.
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Ned Buntline later served on the USS Constellation and the USS Boston.
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Ned Buntline spent several years in the East starting up newspapers and story papers, only to have most of them fail.
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Ned Buntline was an opinionated man and strongly advocated nativism and temperance; he became a leader in the Know Nothing movement.
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William and George were a co-owners of the steamboat Cicero and they invited Ned Buntline to go along on a January 1844 voyage to Cincinnati.
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In October 1844, the Knickerbocker published an article of Ned Buntline's titled "Running the Blockade" in which the hero of the story was William Allen.
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In January 1845 with the assistance of the Allen brothers, Ned Buntline relocated to Nashville, where Hudson Kidd secured temporary living quarters for Escudero while her husband went off to St Louis for a time.
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Ned Buntline started a third magazine, Ned Buntline's Own, at this time.
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Ned Buntline moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and used the money to start a magazine, Ned Buntline's Own.
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Ned Buntline was captured by a lynch mob and hanged from an awning, but was rescued by friends.
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Ned Buntline was fined $250 and sentenced to a year's imprisonment in September 1849.
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Ned Buntline eluded the authorities but was arrested in 1872 while touring and promoting his play in the city.
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Ned Buntline was an ardent Republican until the election of 1884, when he refused to support James G Blaine.
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Ned Buntline was traveling through Nebraska when he heard that Wild Bill Hickok was in Fort McPherson.
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Ned Buntline had read a popular article about Hickok and hoped to interview him and write a dime novel about him.
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Ned Buntline threatened Buntline with a gun and ordered him out of town in 24 hours.
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Still looking to get information on his subject, Ned Buntline took to finding Hickok's friends.
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Ned Buntline took a train in 1869 from California to Nebraska, where he had been lecturing on the virtues of temperance.
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Originally, Ned Buntline was going to cast Cody as a sidekick of "Wild Bill" Hickok, but he found Cody's character more interesting than Hickok's.
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Ned Buntline presented Cody as a "compendium of cliches"; however, this did not stop the New York playwright Frank Meader from using Ned Buntline's novel as the basis of a play about Cody's life in 1872.
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Ned Buntline's play served as training for Cody's later Wild West show.
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Ned Buntline continued to write dime novels, but none was as successful as his earlier work.
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Ned Buntline used these pseudonyms: Captain Hal Decker, Scout Jack Ford, and Edward Minturn.
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Ned Buntline settled into his home in Stamford, New York, where he died of congestive heart failure on July 18,1886.
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Ned Buntline was once one of the wealthiest authors in America, but his wife had to sell his home the "Eagle's Nest" to pay his debts.