L I FE AND ADV ENTURES OF “ NED BUNTL I NE ” ’ Ned Buntline s Anecdote of Frank Forester And Chapter of Angling Sketches B FRED E 1 0ND y . 3 ” Wi ll Wi ldwo o d ) ’ Edi or of F an Forest er s Fu iti e S ortin Ske ches t r k g v p g t , ” S ortin Scenes and Charact rs etc . p g e , THE CADMUS BOOK SHOP 1 9 1 9 O F THE LI FE AND ADV ENTU RES O F NED B UNTLI NE TW O H U ND RED AND FI FTY C O PI ES HAV E BEEN PRI NTED FRO M TYPE A ND TH PE IS TRIBU E E TY D T D . Tab le of Contents I ntroduction Anecdote of Frank Foreste r CHAPTER I d E l d nt and F St r Boyhoo , ar y A ve ures , irst o y CHAPTER II I n the Semi nole War and in G otham CHAPTER III ’ ’ The Novelist s I ntense Patriotism Ne d B untline s CH APTER I V — ’ Life in the Adirondacks A Hunter s Home CHAPTER V Ne d Buntline in the Civil War CHAPTER V I Unjust I mprisonme nt of Ned Buntline CHAPTER V I I ” Wi Sc of l n and m th outs the P ai s , at Ho e CHAPT ER V III — La ter Y ears Personal Remi nisc enc es CHAPTER I ! Ne d Buntli ne as An A nglin g Writer CHAPT ER ! Ned Buntli ne as a Writer o f V erse CHAPTER ! I Closing Y ears o f a Remarkab le Career Books by Ned I LLUSTRATI ONS ” P rai l n Ned n lin F n i i ort t of Co . Judso Bu t e ro t sp ece —“ W b t F nk F . F c n P 4 . Her er ra orester a i g age Portrait of Seth Green Facing Page 1 1 1 I NTR ODUCTI ON f E l The li e history o f Col . dward Zane Carrol “ ! Judson ! Ned Buntline ) is more thrilling than f romance , as his career , rom boyhood to middle o f age , was a succession adventures by land and sea ; as a sportsman and angler in the then primitive wil o f derness and lake region the Adirondacks , as a S midshipman in the navy , a soldier in the eminole M f o f f war , the exican war , the our years war are S in between the North and outh , and finally the In o dian wars f the wild west . Colonel Judson ’ s record should have lasting fame —fi rst for f in , his un altering Americanism and his fl uence fo r loyalty in the times that literally tried ’ o f men s souls ; then , on account his really remark able literary achievements in the line o f realistic ~ f f romance , bringing into world wide ame the last i not the most notable o f American scouts and fron “ “ “ — ff T x s tiersman Bu alo Bill , Wild Bill , e a ” f o f e Jack , and other earless scouts th plains , whose deeds o f daring were no less thrilling than those of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson in an earlier era ; and o f o f - last , but equal interest to all lovers out door f sports , his graphic, delight ul sketches relating to shooting and fishing, with his personal reminiscences o f some of the pioneers o f American sporting litera ture . C i r ‘ n o f ons de ed i the light realistic fiction , Ned ’ Buntline s seatales and border romances will com f pare avorably with the best o f J . Fenimore ’ — Cooper s celebrated novels in fact it is sa fe to state that in the remarkable series descriptive o f the ad ventures of the scouts o f the plains the popular stories written by Ned Buntline had far greater do gree o f accuracy as to depicting real scenes and in ’ f . cidents than any o Cooper s tales Priority, rather than preciseness o f work ; studious care in o f preparation , in place a hastily written and volum ino of o f us amount fiction , to meet the demand press and public— these conditions combine to give the earlier novelist more enduring fame . “ The series entitled Li fe and Adventures o f Ned ! ’ Wildwood s Ma azine Buntline first appeared in g , and the limited edition now published in book form —With some additional reminiscences and an enter “ n of taining A ecdote Frank Forester, by Ned Bunt ” line -may serve to interest the enthusiastic col lectors of personal memoirs o f noteworthy men ; writers who have not only put forth a liberal amount of stirring fiction , but have led adventurous lives s I f imilar to those represented in their novels . con sidered f rom this viewpoint alone , Colonel Judson o f would stand at the head American novelists , as _ _ 3 f f no other has shown such a wonder ul career o real , often reckless daring as he whose name was known “ to comparatively few while his nom de plume ! Ned ” f n Buntline ) at the height o his success , was k own f of to millions ; but ame is fleeting, and the man o f o f e phenomenal energy , dauntless courage , onc — national reputation , now rests almost unknown to — the younger generation in the shadow o f his loved “ ’ ” The E of the home agle s N est , in the Highlands Hudson . ANBODOTE OF FR ANK FORESTER By NED BUNTLI NE Z C ud l Ed a d . ! Co . w r J son) ‘ Y EARLY association with Hen ry William “ ” Herbert ! Frank Forester ) is indelibly impressed upon the tablets o f memory . I remember the sporting author as a digui - fied , scholarly gentleman , warm hearted , a f o f brilliant conversationalist , ull anecdote and sporting reminiscences . Snobs were his aversion . f Generous to a ault , he would give , not share , his last dollar , when any worthy person was in need n a d came under his notice . His cosy country seat , “ ! The R Cedars , on the Passaic iver , near Newark , f . o r l N J , was the retreat not on y many wealthy f for and distinguished riends , but also more than f o f e one un ortunate or unlucky man letters , whos ff T literary e orts had been poorly rewarded . hough E nglish , and aristocratically so by birth , he was much attached to America as the home o f his adop . Ye as tion All his works show this . t he w very H ENRY W I L L I AM H ERB ERT ! FRA N K FO RES T ER ) t o f sensitive , and any apparen slight or lack courtesy on the pa rt o f others was not lightly or easily for - t f given . His over sensitive na ure o ten involved him o in heated contr versies , and even quarrels , in regard E The f to his native land , ngland . writer ound this o ut in a strange way . At a dinner party given by o f S ir it the Times T . o William Porter , the p f , at the H Y Carlton ouse , New ork , where Herbert boarded , if there were present, I remember correctly , Pap R o f S ir it E ichards , the p ; Charles lliott, the great o f portrait painter ; Lewis Gaylord Clarke , editor K nickerb ocker Ma azine D the g ; empster , the com “ ” n F poser and balladist ; Fra k orester , and the f writer hereo . The f dinner , strictly game , was pro use and ele f gant , and a ter the cloth was removed songs and for D stories were called . empster sang, Clarke told some o f his inimitable anecdotes and then called on the writer fo r a French story he had once heard him o f tell . Not f r an instant thinking o giving Herbert ff f F n r . as o o ense , the sto y was told It w a re ch man who had been captured by the British frigate o o f the Guerriere , telling f the capture the latter by f i o f 1 8 1 2 . American r gate Constitution , in the war It ran thus : “ ’ Shentilmens ! W en z e Yankee Doodle natione ’ ze z a i ne was ave war wiz e John Bull n t o , I was in H b ree B . avre wiz my leetle g, La elle Julie And I k “ sin I will make one grand speculatione. I load my br ee f f ze z e g wiz a beauti ul cargo o wine, brandy — 6 and ze sausage de Bologna ; and I make sail fo r m i e . A er qu to sell zem Four, five days I sail along free at finely, zen along come one John Bull g , and she go b oom wiz her big gun and I stop my leetle ofli ciare b reeg. Zen a John Bull he come on board my b reeg and he say ’ Sare l I ave ze onare to take possessione in ze M t name of his Brittanic ajes y. “ ‘ I reply : Sare l I very much oblige to heez Brit ’ n Mon Dieu l not all ta ic Majesty . I was oblige at . “ Zen he remove plenty o f ze brandy and wine to ze free at a d John Bull g , n he remove me and my b ree men and make fire to my g, and send her to ’ D re Mon D — I avy Jones locka .