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  • Ned

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Examples

  • Buntline to Cody's partner Nate (Joel Grey): It's my experience that when two partners agree on everything it means one of them is unnecessary.

    Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you! 2010

  • I think the casting of Burt Lancaster as Ned Buntline, the man who invented Buffalo Bill was perfect, but I'm not sure I've put my finger on exactly why yet.

    Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you! 2010

  • He talks about the Starship series, his forthcoming Weird Western, The Buntline Special, and his forthcoming Golden Gryphon novel Blasphemy, among other things.

    Mike Resnick on the Dragon Page Lou Anders 2010

  • He talks about the Starship series, his forthcoming Weird Western, The Buntline Special, and his forthcoming Golden Gryphon novel Blasphemy, among other things.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Lou Anders 2010

  • So when his Buntline tells Newman's Cody "It was a thrill to have invented you" there's an inside joke.

    Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you! 2010

  •  Earp was famous for his Colt Buntline Special – a pistol with a 12” barrel that Earp liked to “buffalo” (hit lawbreakers over the head) with.

    The Best Lawmen from the Old West | myFiveBest 2009

  • Lancaster is great casting because he needs to be the moral center (which is particularly funny when put up with the real life Buntline) of the film and, my geebus, who better than Lancaster.

    Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you! 2010

  • Its curious that Altman made Buntline the moral voice, given that most of the audience would not have know about Buntline, and would not have been aware of the irony.

    Buffalo Bill! The thrill of my life to have invented you! 2010

  • Another Easterner who came to Dodge about this time, seeking fortune and fame of another kind, was Edward Z. C. Judson, who wrote blood-and-thunder fiction under the name of Ned Buntline.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • The creator of Buffalo Bill was Edward Z. C. Judson, a veteran author of yellow-hacked novels who wrote under the pen name of Ned Buntline.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

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