- Frederick Manfred
Frederick Feikema Manfred (
January 6 ,1912 -September 7 ,1994 ) was a noted Western author.Manfred was born in
Doon ,Iowa . He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books. According toAlvin Plantinga , Manfred thought that he would have a hard time being taken seriously by the Eastern establishment with a name like "Feike Feikema", so he elected to change his name to Frederick Manfred. He was the individual who coined the media area around his home area of Sioux City,Iowa ,Siouxland .For a time he lived in a house which is now the interpretive center of
Blue Mounds State Park in Rock County,Minnesota . He attendedCalvin College in Michigan.His books include:
*"This is the Year " (1947),Doubleday & Company
*"The Primitive " (1949), Doubleday & Company
*"Conquering Horse " (1959), ISBN 0-8398-2590-0
*"Lord Grizzly " (1954), ISBN 0-8398-2591-9, about the ordeal of mountain manHugh Glass
*"Scarlet Plume " (1964), ISBN 0-8398-2594-3
*"King of Spades" (1965), ISBN 0-8398-2592-7
*"Riders of Judgment " (1957), ISBN 0-8398-2593-5ee also
*"Frederick Manfred." "Dictionary of Literary Biography" 212:185-197. 1999.
* [http://www.usd.edu/engl/manfred/ The Frederick Manfred Information Page]
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