Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian. C. Lindsay Workman played the role of Buntline in the ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series Colt .45, in the 1959 episode entitled "A Legend of Buffalo Bill", with Britt Lomond as Cody. In this episode, the series character Christopher Colt, portrayed by Wayde Preston, while investigating a series of raids on the railroad, meets Cody, who offers to sell Colt .45 pistols. The episode falsely implies that Colt gave Cody his nickname of Buffalo Bill. Buntline was portrayed by the character Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) when he disguised himself as Buntline in episode 18 of the third season of The Wild Wild West, a television show that aired from 1965 to 1969. Burt Lancaster played Buntline (referred to as "the Legend Maker") in Robert Altman's 1976 film Buffalo Bill and the Indians. In the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven the character of W.W.Beauchamp is modelled on Buntline. Buntline is a character in the Larry McMurtry novel Buffalo Girls. Bibliography References Notes Further reading External links 1821 births 1886 deaths 19th-century American novelists 19th-century American journalists 19th-century American male writers American male journalists American male novelists Dime novelists Journalists from New York (state) People of the American Old West People from Delaware County, New York Pulp fiction writers New York (state) Republicans Novelists from New York (state) Western (genre) writers