Natty 
Bumppo,
Attorney at
Law, Box
413, Brownsville
KY 42210,
U.S.A.,
(270) 597-2187 (fax number unpublished).
A.B., Indiana University, 1962;
J.D., Northwestern University, 1973.
Admitted to bar, Illinois Supreme Court, 1973 (retired, 2000),
Kentucky Court of Appeals (now Supreme Court), 1974,
United States District Court (Western Kentucky), 1975,
United States Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit), 1982,
and the United States Supreme Court, 1988.
Master Commissioner, Edmonson (County, Kentucky) Circuit Court, 1995 - ;
Instructor, Western Kentucky University, 1995-1999;
Edmonson County
(Kentucky) Attorney, 1978-1982.
Representative clients:
Playboy model Lisa Hammond;
murder accusée Delores Hayes
(featured in television show “On
Trial”);
Computerland (Bowling Green, Ky.).
Born
June 16, 1940, Rushville, Indiana, sub nom John Edwin
Dean;
changed
name to Nathaniel John Balthazar Bumppo, 1974 (see June, 1975, issue of
Esquire magazine).
Married five times (divorced only four).
Two children.
Author,
War Stories: The Memoirs of a Country Lawyer
(
Borf Books, 2005),
available also as an audio book;
The Indiana Torture Slaying
(second edition,
Borf, 1999;
original edition Bee-Line Books,
1966);
Ideas for a Better
America
(Borf, 1980);
The Columbus Book of Euchre
(Borf, 1982);
Lonely
Hearts (Borf, 1992);
"Dear sir (you cur):"
(Borf,
1997);
“The Summer of New Mexico & the Acid Cowboys,”
Rolling
Stone (July 9, 1970);
“Why I’d Rather Be Natty Bumppo than John
Dean
(Wouldn’t Everybody?),” Esquire
(June, 1975);
“Cribbage
Solitaire” (published only on line),
and “A Fable: The Case
of the
Half-Rotten Apple” (1993), published on line and in War
Stories.
Editor & publisher,
A Rug Before My Time: The Memoirs of Pecker the
Cat (Borf, 1982);
The
Sackbut Tapes (Borf, 1998). (back to top)
Reporter, Terre Haute Star, 1960; Associated Press, 1962-1963;
Indianapolis
Star, 1963-1967 (first beard in city room, 1967);
Detroit News, 1969.
Indianapolis Press Club Award for Consistently Outstanding Reporting, 1967.
Copy editor, Indianapolis Star, 1967; Chicago Sun-Times, 1967-1968,
1969-1974; San Francisco Examiner, 1968; Detroit Free Press, 1969.
Bartender, Golden Horse Shoe saloon, Oakland, Calif., 1968.
Candygram delivery man, Western Union, San Francisco, Valentine’s
Day, 1969.
Mail order minister, Universal Life Church (bonded to perform marriages), 1974 - .
Composer of
“Redneck
Breakfast,”
“Arkansas
Gate”
and other great folk and
country songs that haven’t exactly
busted the charts
(the links are to short movies).
Placed 7th in
old time banjo competition at Official Kentucky Old Time Fiddlers
Contest, 1983.
Articles about Bumppo on line:
In the Amplifier
(with video interview);
in the Louisville Courier-Journal,
and in Eric Shackle’s e-book from Oz: here,
here and here.
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“Bumppo’s greatest lasting contribution to his chosen
field is likely to lie
in the realm of creative law, or entertaining
law, which to my mind
involves saving the law from itself, and [his]
booklet’s [Ideas
for a
Better America’s] most useful proposals operate
in this arena. . . .”
– Michael Miner, in the Reader
(Chicago, September 12, 1980).
Further examples of “creative law” can be found in Bumppo’s
1997 pub-
lication
"Dear sir (you cur):", including
correspondence
over the incorporation of
New Year’s Eve Inc. with the Kentucky
Secretary of State
(who was fucking with the corporation’s future).
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