Frank Merriwell at Yale

Frank Merriwell at Yale
By:"Burt L. Standish"
Published on 2008-01-01 by Wildside Press LLC

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Frank Merriwell was the fictional creation of Gilbert Patten, who wrote under the pseudonym Burt L. Standish. The model for all later American juvenile sports fiction, Merriwell excelled at football, baseball, crew, and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wrongs. He played with great strength and received traumatic blows without injury. A biographical entry on Patten noted that Frank Merriwell \

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword Gilbert Patten.




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