Frank Merriwell Down South (Illustrated)

by Burt L. Standish

Overview

Frank Merriwell Down South is the fifth book in the Merriwell Series. Frank first searches for a lost Silver Palace in Mexico. Then he travels to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, and at the same time, encounters the mystery of the Queen of Flowers. After that, he experiences an adventure in Florida's Everglades, encountering a white canoe that somehow paddles. If you are not yet exhausted (and Frank never tires, it seems), he encounters moonshiners in the mountains of Tennessee. "Down South," for sure!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663500878
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/10/2020
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

William George "Gilbert" Patten (October 25, 1866 – January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish. At fourteen, when his father threatened that he would be put to work if he did not improve at school, Patten ran away to Biddeford, Maine where he worked in a machine shop. When he returned home and told his father that he would become an author, he was given thirty days to prove himself. He sold his first two stories in this period to the dime novel company of Erastus Flavel Beadle, and combined his resumed studies for the next four years with writing and publishing stories. When he was twenty, he married Alice Gardner, and in 1892 their son Harvan Barr Patten was born. They later divorced and Gilbert Patten would marry twice more.