Prentiss Ingraham

…Cody arranged for dime novelist Prentiss Ingraham to help Majors write his autobiography, Seventy Years on the Frontier (1893).

Judson) and Prentiss Ingraham. Recognizing the financial possibilities inherent in dramatizing the West, Cody was easily persuaded in 1872 to star in Buntline’s drama The Scouts of the Prairie. Though his acting was far from polished, he became a superb showman, and his audiences greeted him with…