Frederick Manfred

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 to Alvin 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 attended Calvin 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 man Hugh Glass
*"Scarlet Plume" (1964), ISBN 0-8398-2594-3
*"King of Spades" (1965), ISBN 0-8398-2592-7
*"Riders of Judgment" (1957), ISBN 0-8398-2593-5

ee 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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