The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-25

he took part in an American Legion show In
Norfolk, the fact that he was the former 'Dia-
mond Dick" was made known.
1.-The Evil Spirit of the Plains" was DIR. Frank
Carver, a frontiersman and buffalo-hunter "a far
greater one than Cody, according to some author
tiles and better entitled to the title of Buffalo
Bill" mainly because of his victory over "Buf-
falo Jack"-Jack Mccall, the slayer Of ''Wild
Bill" Hickok-in buffalo shootng contest) who
was for time associated with Cody in the Wild
West Show business and later, when he and
Cody quarreled, the producer of show Of his
own
'Old Grizzly" was one of the most interesting
of all the Originals" of dime novel heroes. He
James Capon Adams, born near Seneca
Lake, N Y, who became famous bear tanner
because he was accustomed to go about the
country riding on an enormous grizzly bear with
q second similar huge beast as a sort of body
guard for him. His dime novel fame started in
book written by his nephew, James FenmOre
Cooper Adams, who was himself later known as
"Bruin" Adams and was the subject of several
dime novels by Col Prentiss Ingraham.
1t has been suggested more than once that
some other dime novelist might well have used
"Ned Buntline" as the central character in
yellow-back thriller and only brief survey of
the JudsOn career shows how apt Is that sug-
gestion. Born in Philadelphia in 1922, Judson
ran away to sea at the age of eleven and from
that time on he had tempestuous existence
as a sailor; as midshipman; duellist; as
a soldier in the Seminole and Mexican wars; as
an employee of the Northwest Fur company In
the Yellowstone country; as one of the organic
ers of the Know Nothing party tthe Ku Klux
Klan of its day. and ringleader in the Aston
Place riots for which he imprisoned for a
year; as chief of Indian scouts in the Union
army during the Civil war; and finally as
hunter and rambling visitor in the Wild West
For all his adventurous life and many escapes
from violent death, the end came peacefully to
the greatest of the dime noyests on July 49,
1886, at his home in the Highlands of the Hud-
son.
Almost as remarkable career as Judson's
was that Of Col Prentiss Ingraham. Born in
Portland, Maine, in 1S43 at the age of three
Ingraham was taken by his parents to Natchez,
Miss. and there he grew up under the trad-
lions of the Old South. When Mississippi seeded
from the Union, Ingraham Immediately enlisted
in the Confederate army and became lieuten-
ant before he was eighteen years of age.
Embittered by the defeat of the South the
transpanted Northerner forswore his allegiance
to his native country and went to Mexico where
he fought for a time under Juarez. Then he
became true soldier of demonstrating with
the Austrians against Prussia in 1866, in the
Cretan army against the Turks, and later in
Africa and in Asia. Next his sympathies for the
under-dog led him to Cuba where the Ten-Year-
War against Spanish rule had begun.
Ingraham became both captain in the Cuban
navy and a colonel of cavalry In its army. Cap
tured by the Spaniards he barely missed facing
a firing squad. Then, his bitterness somewhat
softened towards the land Of his birth, he re-
turned to the United States and turned his atten.
ton to manufacturing blood-and-thunder tales
He bought a fine home near Georgetown, D. c.,
where he lived magnifcently as a typical "South.
ern colonel" from the profits Of his busy pen
Il eby wsstsrn Nswspspsr Union.