Background
Prentiss Ingraham was born on December 22, 1843 in Adams County, Mississippi, United States, the son of Joseph Holt Ingraham [q. v. ] and Mary (Brooks) Ingraham.
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Prentiss Ingraham was born on December 22, 1843 in Adams County, Mississippi, United States, the son of Joseph Holt Ingraham [q. v. ] and Mary (Brooks) Ingraham.
His education was gained by private tutoring, attendance at St. Timothy's Military Academy, Maryland, Jefferson College, Mississippi, and Mobile Medical College, but was interrupted by the Civil War.
Ingraham served in the light artillery, Withers' Mississippi Regiment; as a staff officer with the rank of lieutenant; and in Ross's brigade, Texas cavalary, as commander of scouts. He was once captured and twice wounded. Probably no American writer was more truly a soldier of fortune than he.
Lured on by his love of adventure, after the Civil War he served under Juarez in Mexico; in Austria in the war with Prussia; in Crete; in Africa; and afloat and ashore in the Cuban ten years' war for independence. Extensive travels in Eastern lands and thrilling experiences in the West also provided material for his writtings. The most striking thing about the literary career on which he embarked in London in 1870, and which he continued in New York and Chicago, was his fecundity. Like his father, he wrote for weekly family papers, and he was one of the most prolific producers for the Dime and Half-Dime Libraries published by Beadle & Adams. On a hurry order for the firm he once turned off a "half-dime, " 35, 000 words, in a day and a night, with a fountain pen.
He was an intimate friend of Buffalo Bill - William F. Cody - about whose career he wrote more than two hundred "paper-backs, " which are still to be found on the news stands. In somewhat similar vein is The Girl Rough Riders (1903), a juvenile book containing a good deal of description of the Grand Canyon, which is said to have been inspired by his escort of a party of young women across the plains. Among his other titles are: Zuleikah: A Story of Crete (1887); Darkie Dan (1888); Cadet Carey, of West Point (1890); An American Monte Cristo (1891); and Saratoga (1885), which he edited as a result of his residence in that city.
As far as can be judged from the narratives now obtainable, these books, although without distinction, are written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion, and are wholesome in their general teachings. His death occurred at the Beauvoir Confederate Home, which he had entered a few days before in search of rest after having, as he said, crowded a hundred and twenty years of experience into his sixty years of life.
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In his early years, according to a contemporary, Ingraham was "a dark, handsome, fascinating youth. "
Ingraham was married in 1875 to Rosa Langley of New York, who with three children survived him.