Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story (Sport, Culture, and Society) Edward Underhill each contributor shares a priceless

each contributor shares a priceless event or moment where they discovered their own queer joy

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Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story (Sport, Culture, and Society) Edward Underhill each contributor shares a pricelessGilbert 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 Merriwells adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the