Ned Buntline
Edward Zane Carroll Judson, Sr. , known as E. Z. C. Judson and by his pseudonym Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, writer, and publicist. In his largely fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal, author Stuart Lake credits Buntline with having commissioned from Colts Manufacturing Company a Colt Buntline Special that he gave to Wyatt Earp and four other famous Western lawmen in thanks for their help with contributing local color to his many dozens of western yarns. But modern researchers have not found any supporting evidence of the guns existence prior to the publication of Lakes book from secondary sources or in available primary documentation.
Judson was born in Harpersfield, New York, near Stamford. He moved with his parents to Bethany, Pennsylvania, in 1826 and Philadelphia in 1834. His father, Levi Carroll Judson, was a lawyer and wanted Judson to be a clergyman.
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