Frank Merriwell's Own Company; Or, Barnstorming in the Middle West

Frank Merriwell's Own Company; Or, Barnstorming in the Middle West

Author: Burt L. Standish

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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This is a captivating story about Frank Merriwell from the North, who has inherited money that he uses to travel. It contains stories about his quest for silver in Mexico and a little romance in Louisiana. In addition, the book has a seemingly supernatural mystery in the swamps of Florida. It is a fun book with amusing and well-developed characters.


Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood

Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood

Author: Ryan K. Anderson

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2015-09-09

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1557286825

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Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in 1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life on the nation’s boys. Merriwell came to symbolize the Progressive Era debate about how sport and school made boys into men. The saga featured the attractive Merriwell distinguishing between “good” and “bad” girls and focused on his squeaky-clean adventures in physical development and mentorship. By the serial’s conclusion, Merriwell had opened a school for “weak and wayward boys” that made him into a figure who taught readers how to approximate his example. In Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood, Anderson treats Tip Top Weekly as a historical artifact, supplementing his reading of its text, illustrations, reader letters, and advertisements with his use of editorial correspondence, memoirs, trade journals, and legal documents. Anderson blends social and cultural history, with the history of business, gender, and sport, along with a general examination of childhood and youth in this fascinating study of how a fictional character was used to promote a homogeneous “normal” American boyhood rooted in an assumed pecking order of class, race, and gender.


The Daily Washington Law Reporter

The Daily Washington Law Reporter

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1902- include decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and various other courts of the District of Columbia.


The Washington Law Reporter

The Washington Law Reporter

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13:

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Includes decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1902-1934, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1934-1959, and various other courts of the District of Columbia.