Prentiss Ingraham

Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (December 28, 1843 – August 16, 1904) was a colonel in the Confederate Army, a mercenary throughout the 1860s, and a fiction writer.

Biography

Prentiss Ingraham, the son of Rev. Joseph Ingraham (author of A Prince of the House of David), was born near Natchez, Mississippi in Adams County. He studied at St. Timothy's Military Academy, Maryland, and at Jefferson College, Mississippi.^[1]

Later he entered the Mobile Medical College, but soon quit to join the Confederate Army where he became a Colonel in the Adacus Company Regiment.^[2] He was also commander of scouts in Lawrence Sullivan Ross' Brigade, the Texas Cavalry. After the end of the war, he went to Mexico and fought with Juárez against the French, and still later went to South America.^[1]

He had service with General Max Hoffmann's staff in the Battle of Sadowa, Austria, in 1866 was in Crete against the Turks, and in the Khedive's army in Egypt. During 1869 he went to London but soon came back to the United States and enlisted with the Cuban rebels against Spain, running the blockade in the Hornet several times before it was surrendered to the U. S. Navy. He was a Colonel in the Cuban army as well as a Captain in their navy, and was captured, tried as a filibuster and condemned to death by the Spaniards, but escaped.^[3] Ingraham relocated to the American West where he met Buffalo Bill Cody. Ingraham soon worked as an advance agent for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

In 1875 he married Rose Langley.^[4]

Writing career

Ingraham's literary career began in London in 1869. He was the author of the novel The Masked Spy (1872) and is known best for his Buffalo Bill series of novels. Other major novelistic series include the Buck Taylor series, Merle Monte series, and Dick Doom series. Ingraham claimed in 1900 to have written more than 600 novels.

As well as writing by his own name, Ingraham used a number of pseudonyms including: Dr. Noel Dunbar, Dangerfield Burr, Major Henry B. Stoddard, Colonel Leon Lafitte, Frank Powell, Harry Dennies Perry, Midshipman Tom W. Hall, Lieut. Preston Graham.^[3] He also ghostwrote several works for Buffalo Bill Cody.^[5]

Buffalo Bill dime novels by Col. Prestiss Ingraham

1 Buffalo Bill, the Border King
2 Buffalo Bill’s Raid
3 Buffalo Bill’s Bravery
4 Buffalo Bill’s Trump Card
5 Buffalo Bill’s Pledge
6 Buffalo Bill’s Vengeance
7 Buffalo Bill’s Iron Grip
8 Buffalo Bill’s Capture
9 Buffalo Bill’s Danger Line
10 Buffalo Bill’s Comrades
11 Buffalo Bill’s Reckoning
12 Buffalo Bill’s Warning
13 Buffalo Bill at Bay
14 Buffalo Bill’s Buckskin Pards
15 Buffalo Bill’s Brand
16 Buffalo Bill’s Honor
17 Buffalo Bill’s Phantom Hunt
18 Buffalo Bill’s Fight With Fire
19 Buffalo Bill’s Danite Trail
20 Buffalo Bill’s Ranch Riders
21 Buffalo Bill’s Death Trail
22 Buffalo Bill’s Trackers
23 Buffalo Bill’s Mid-air Flight
24 Buffalo Bill, Ambassador
25 Buffalo Bill’s Air Voyage
26 Buffalo Bill’s Secret Mission
27 Buffalo Bill’s Long Trail
28 Buffalo Bill Against Odds
29 Buffalo Bill’s Hot Chase
30 Buffalo Bill’s Redskin Ally
31 Buffalo Bill’s Treasure Trove
32 Buffalo Bill’s Hidden Foes
33 Buffalo Bill’s Crack Shot
34 Buffalo Bill’s Close Call
35 Buffalo Bill’s Double Surprise
36 Buffalo Bill’s Ambush
37 Buffalo Bill’s Outlaw Hunt
38 Buffalo Bill’s Border Duel
39 Buffalo Bill’s Bid for Fame
40 Buffalo Bill’s Triumph
41 Buffalo Bill’s Spy Trailer
42 Buffalo Bill’s Death Call
43 Buffalo Bill’s Body Guard
44 Buffalo Bill’s Still Hunt
45 Buffalo Bill and the Doomed Dozen
46 Buffalo Bill’s Prairie Scout
47 Buffalo Bill’s Traitor Guide
48 Buffalo Bill’s Bonanza
49 Buffalo Bill’s Swoop
50 Buffalo Bill and the Gold King
51 Buffalo Bill, Deadshot
52 Buffalo Bill’s Buckskin Bravos
53 Buffalo Bill’s Big Four
54 Buffalo Bill’s One-armed Pard
55 Buffalo Bill’s Race for Life
56 Buffalo Bill’s Return
57 Buffalo Bill’s Conquest
58 Buffalo Bill to the Rescue
59 Buffalo Bill’s Beautiful Foe
60 Buffalo Bill’s Perilous Task
61 Buffalo Bill’s Queer Find
62 Buffalo Bill’s Blind Lead
63 Buffalo Bill’s Resolution
64 Buffalo Bill, the Avenger
65 Buffalo Bill’s Pledged Pard
66 Buffalo Bill’s Weird Warning
67 Buffalo Bill’s Wild Ride
68 Buffalo Bill’s Redskin Stampede
69 Buffalo Bill’s Mine Mystery
70 Buffalo Bill’s Gold Hunt
71 Buffalo Bill’s Daring Dash
72 Buffalo Bill on Hand
73 Buffalo Bill’s Alliance
74 Buffalo Bill’s Relentless Foe
75 Buffalo Bill’s Midnight Ride
76 Buffalo Bill’s Chivalry
77 Buffalo Bill’s Girl Pard
78 Buffalo Bill’s Private War
79 Buffalo Bill’s Diamond Mine
80 Buffalo Bill’s Big Contract
81 Buffalo Bill’s Woman Foe
82 Buffalo Bill’s Ruse
83 Buffalo Bill’s Pursuit
84 Buffalo Bill’s Hidden Gold
85 Buffalo Bill in Mid-air
86 Buffalo Bill’s Queer Mission
87 Buffalo Bill’s Verdict
88 Buffalo Bill’s Ordeal
89 Buffalo Bill’s Camp Fires
90 Buffalo Bill’s Iron Nerve
91 Buffalo Bill’s Rival
92 Buffalo Bill’s Lone Hand
93 Buffalo Bill’s Sacrifice
94 Buffalo Bill’s Thunderbolt
95 Buffalo Bill’s Black Fortune
96 Buffalo Bill’s Wild Work
97 Buffalo Bill’s Yellow Trail
98 Buffalo Bill’s Treasure Train
99 Buffalo Bill’s Bowie Duel
100 Buffalo Bill’s Mystery Man
101 Buffalo Bill’s Bold Play
102 Buffalo Bill: Peacemaker
103 Buffalo Bill’s Big Surprise
104 Buffalo Bill’s Barricade
105 Buffalo Bill’s Test
106 Buffalo Bill’s Powwow
107 Buffalo Bill’s Stern Justice
108 Buffalo Bill’s Mysterious Friend
109 Buffalo Bill and the Boomers
110 Buffalo Bill’s Panther Fight
111 Buffalo Bill and the Overland Mail
112 Buffalo Bill on the Deadwood Trail
113 Buffalo Bill in Apache Land
114 Buffalo Bill’s Blindfold Duel
115 Buffalo Bill and the Lone Camper
116 Buffalo Bill’s Merry War
117 Buffalo Bill’s Star Play
118 Buffalo Bill’s War Cry
119 Buffalo Bill on Black Panther’s Trail
120 Buffalo Bill’s Slim Chance
121 Buffalo Bill Besieged
122 Buffalo Bill’s Bandit Round-up
123 Buffalo Bill’s Surprise Party
124 Buffalo Bill’s Lightning Raid
125 Buffalo Bill in Mexico
126 Buffalo Bill’s Traitor Foe
127 Buffalo Bill’s Tireless Chase
128 Buffalo Bill’s Boy Bugler
129 Buffalo Bill’s Sure Guess
130 Buffalo Bill’s Record Jump
131 Buffalo Bill in the Land of Dread
132 Buffalo Bill’s Tangled Clue
133 Buffalo Bill’s Wolf Skin
134 Buffalo Bill’s Twice Four Puzzle
135 Buffalo Bill and the Devil Bird
136 Buffalo Bill and the Indian’s Mascot
137 Buffalo Bill Entrapped
138 Buffalo Bill’s Totem Trail
139 Buffalo Bill at Fort Challis
140 Buffalo Bill’s Determination
141 Buffalo Bill’s Battle Axe
142 Buffalo Bill’s Game with Fate
143 Buffalo Bill’s Comanche Raid
144 Buffalo Bill’s Aerial Island
145 Buffalo Bill’s Lucky Shot
146 Buffalo Bill’s Sioux Friends
147 Buffalo Bill’s Supreme Test
148 Buffalo Bill’s Boldest Strike
149 Buffalo Bill and the Red Hand
150 Buffalo Bill’s Dance with Death
151 Buffalo Bill’s Running Fight
152 Buffalo Bill in Harness
153 Buffalo Bill Corralled
154 Buffalo Bill’s Waif of the West

Death

Prentiss Ingraham spent his final days at the Beauvoir Confederate Home in Biloxi, Mississippi where he died of Bright's Disease, known to modern medicine as nephritis, on August 16, 1904, aged 60.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Col. Prentiss Ingraham". The Port Gibson Reveille. August 25, 1904. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
^ "Beauvoir Confederate Soldiers Home Cemetery". Beauvoir - The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Ingraham, Prentiss". NIU House of Beadle & Adams Online. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
^ Adcock, John (10 January 2012). "Col. Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904)". Yesterday’s Papers. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
^ Murdoch, David Hamilton (2001). The American West: The Invention of a Myth. Welsh Academic Press. p. 39. ISBN 9781860570117.

External links

Works by Prentiss Ingraham at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Prentiss Ingraham at the Internet Archive
Works by Prentiss Ingraham at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Prentiss Ingraham at Find a Grave

[Reveille-1] "Col. Prentiss Ingraham". The Port Gibson Reveille. August 25, 1904. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

[2] "Beauvoir Confederate Soldiers Home Cemetery". Beauvoir - The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

[NIU-3] "Ingraham, Prentiss". NIU House of Beadle & Adams Online. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

[Adcock-4] Adcock, John (10 January 2012). "Col. Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904)". Yesterday’s Papers. Retrieved 17 November 2017.

[5] Murdoch, David Hamilton (2001). The American West: The Invention of a Myth. Welsh Academic Press. p. 39. ISBN 9781860570117.

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