Colonel Prentiss Ingraham

Biography
      Prentiss Ingraham (December 28, 1843–August 16, 1904), the son of Rev. Joseph Ingraham (author of The Hebraic Power Trilogy), was born near Natchez, Mississippi in Adams County.  He studied at St. Timothy’s Military Academy, Maryland, and at Jefferson College, Mississippi.  Later he entered the Mobile Medical College but soon left to enter the Confederate Army where he became a Colonel in the Adacus Company Regiment.  He was also commander of scouts in Lawrence Sullivan Ross’s Brigade in the Texas Cavalry.
      After the close of the war, he went to Mexico and fought with Juárez against the French, and still later went to South America.  He saw service on General 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.  In 1869 he went to London but soon came back to the United States and took up 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.  Ingraham moved to the West where he met up with Buffalo Bill and soon caught on as advance agent for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
      In 1875 he married Rose Langley.
      Ingraham, whose literary career began in London in 1869, is best known for his Buffalo Bill series of novels.  Other major works include the Buck Taylor series, Merle Monte series, and Dick Doom series.  Ingraham claimed in 1900 to have written over 600 novels.  As well as writing under his own name, Ingraham published under a number of pen names including: Dr. Noel Dunbar, Dangerfield Burr, Major Henry B. Stoddard, Colonel Leon Lafitte, Frank Powell, Harry Dennies Perry, Midshipman Tom W. Hall, and Lieut. Preston Graham.
      He 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.

Bibliography (wildly incomplete)
      Buffalo Bill’s Spy Trailer; or, The Stranger in Camp (date unknown)
      Wizard Will, the Wonder Worker (date unknown)
      The Young Mountaineer (1870s)
      The Boy Guide (1870s)
      Shadw Bill, the Scout; or, Ups and Downs Among the Redskins (1870s)
      The Masked Spy (1872)
      Buffalo Bill, The Buckskin King; or, The Amazon of the West (April 21, 1880)
      California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman (1885)
      Seventy Years on the Frontier: Alexander Majors’ Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border (1893)
      Land of Legendary Lore; Sketches of Romance and Reality on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake (1898)
      Buffalo Bill's death call; or, On a Red Trail (1907)

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