Henry Inman (U.S. Army officer and author)

He served the military during the Indian campaigns and the American Civil War, having earned distinction for gallantry on the battlefield.

He settled in Kansas and worked as a journalist and author of short stories and books of the plains and western frontier.

[4] His father died when he was a child and he was raised by his mother in Hempstead on Long Island for about five years before going away to the Athenian Academy in Rathway, New Jersey.

[1][3][5] He was made lieutenant-colonel for his service during the 1868-1869 Indian winter campaign in Kansas[1][3] under General Philip Sheridan, although the commission never appeared in his official record.

[2] Stationed at Fort Harker as a paymaster, he was tried for embezzlement and other financial issues 1870 to 1872 and was dismissed as a result of what may have been largely carelessness.

[3][10] Buffalo Bill was named as co-author because Inman used a number of quotes from Cody's autobiographical book, Story of the Wild West.

[3] At the time of his death, three books were being published, The Cruise of the Prairie Schooner, Muriel, the Colonel's Daughter, and Pick Smith, the Scout.

[9] He lived a great deal of his life in Kansas, first in military posts, then settling in Larned and then the Auburndale neighborhood of Topeka.