Prentiss Ingraham

Prentiss Ingraham (1843–1904) was an American author of dime novels, the son of the clergyman and novelist Joseph Holt Ingraham. Born in Mississippi, he served in the Confederate army and then as a soldier of fortune in Mexico, Austria, Crete and Cuba before settling down to write. He produced some six hundred novels and hundreds of shorter stories, many of them about his friend William F. Cody, whose Wild West show he also helped to publicize, and he is credited with turning Buffalo Bill into a national legend. He died at the Confederate soldiers' home in Beauvoir, Mississippi.