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Buntline moved Ned Buntline's Own to New York City in 1848. [4] [8] [9] Through his columns and his association with New York City's notorious gangs of the early 19th century, Buntline was one of the instigators of the Astor Place Riot, which left 23 people dead. He was fined $250 and sentenced to a year's imprisonment in September 1849. [10]
Cruisings, Afloat and Ashore: From the Private Log of Ned Buntline Sketches of Land and Sea, Humorous and Pathetic, Tragical and Comical. New York: R. Craighead, 1848. The Red Revenger, Or, the Pirate King of the Floridas; a Romance of the Gulf and Its Islands. Boston: F. Gleason, Flag of Our Union Office, 1848.
The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely fictionalized 1931 biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. According to Lake, the dime novelist Ned Buntline commissioned the production of five Buntline Specials. Lake described them as ...
The extensive grounds, surrounding both Eagle Lake and Utowana Lake, belonged to adventure writer Ned Buntline in 1867 and a 2000-acre parcel owned by William West Durant in 1888, [2] before being purchased by mining magnate Berthold Hochschild in 1904. [3]
Buntline may refer to: Buntline hitch, a knot used for attaching a rope to an object; Clewlines and buntlines, lines used to handle the sails of a square rigged ship; Colt Buntline, a long-barreled revolver; Ned Buntline (1821–1886), an American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist
E.Z.C. Judson, (pseudonym of Ned Buntline) K. Jim Kane (pseudonym of Peter B. Germano) Mike Kearby; Elmer Kelton (1926–2009) Charles King (1844–1933) L.
According to Lake's biography, dime novelist Ned Buntline had five Buntline Specials commissioned. Lake described them as extra-long Colt Single Action Army revolvers with 12-inch (300 mm) barrels. Buntline was supposed to have presented them to lawmen in thanks for their help with contributing "local color" to his western yarns.
Ned Buntline (Lloyd Corrigan) arrives in Dodge City after writing a book which proclaims Earp "King of the Frontier". Buntline claims that Earp can beat any cowboy in a variety of competitive activities, including shooting. Miles Breck (Grant Withers) of the Lazy Q outfit bets Buntline $10,000 that his men can beat Earp in selected challenges.