Frederick Manfred
Encyclopedia
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 popular term, Siouxland
, for the immediate area around his home area of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
.
From 1940 – 1942, he was a patient at Glen Lake Sanatorium
in Minnesota. He met his future wife, Maryanna Shorba, at the sanatorium. He fictionalized this period in his book, Boy Almighty, published under the name Feike Feikema.
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.
Manfred died in Luverne, Minnesota
, in 1994, at the age of 82.
Note: There are also a handful of non-fiction titles, notably The Wind Blows Free, a memoir of the Dust Bowl, Conversations with Frederick Manfred, and Prime Fathers and Duke's Mixture, anthologies of FM's essays.
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
author.
Manfred was born in Doon
Doon, Iowa
Doon is a city in Lyon County, Iowa, United States, along the Rock River. The population was 533 at the 2000 census. The BNSF, or Burlington, Northern & Santa Fe Railway, passes through Doon.-History:...
, Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books. According to Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher and the emeritus John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, and Christian apologetics...
, 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 popular term, Siouxland
Siouxland
Siouxland is a vernacular region that encompasses the entire Big Sioux River drainage basin in the U.S. states of South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa....
, for the immediate area around his home area of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
.
From 1940 – 1942, he was a patient at Glen Lake Sanatorium
Glen Lake Sanatorium
Glen Lake Sanatorium, a tuberculosis treatment center serving Hennepin County in Minnesota, opened on January 4, 1916, with a capacity of 50 patients. In 1909, the Minnesota State Legislature had passed a bill authorizing the appointment of county sanatorium boards and appropriating money for the...
in Minnesota. He met his future wife, Maryanna Shorba, at the sanatorium. He fictionalized this period in his book, Boy Almighty, published under the name Feike Feikema.
For a time he lived in a house which is now the interpretive center of Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park
Blue Mounds State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, in Rock County near the town of Luverne. It protects an American bison herd which grazes on one of the state's largest prairie remnants....
in Rock County
Rock County, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,721 people, 3,843 households, and 2,705 families residing in the county. The population density was 20 people per square mile . There were 4,137 housing units at an average density of 9 per square mile...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. He attended Calvin College
Calvin College
Calvin College is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin College is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed tradition of Protestantism...
in Michigan.
Manfred died in Luverne, Minnesota
Luverne, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,617 people, 1,968 households, and 1,247 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,356.1 people per square mile . There were 2,161 housing units at an average density of 634.7 per square mile...
, in 1994, at the age of 82.
Fiction
- The Golden Bowl (Manfred)The Golden Bowl (Manfred)Frederick Manfred's The Golden Bowl is his first novel, published under his birth name Feike Feikema. Manfred insisted on his title, which echoes another American novelist, even when his friend Sinclair Lewis argued against it....
(1944) - Boy Almighty (1945)
- This is the Year (1947), Doubleday & Company
- The Chokecherry Tree (1948)
- The Primitive (1949), Doubleday & Company
- The Brother (1950)
- The Giant (1951)
- Lord GrizzlyLord GrizzlyLord Grizzly is a biographical novel by Frederick Manfred. It describes the survival ordeal of a real mountain man, Hugh Glass, who was attacked by a bear and abandoned in the wilderness by his companions , on the assumption he could not possibly live...
(1954), ISBN 0-8398-2591-9, about the ordeal of mountain man Hugh GlassHugh GlassHugh Glass was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of the 19th century.... - Morning Red (1956)
- Riders of JudgmentRiders of JudgmentRiders of Judgment is the fifth book chronologically in Frederick Manfred's Buckskin Man Tales, which trace themes through five novels set in the 19th Century Great Plains. The story fictionalizes Wyoming's Johnson County War, based on Manfred's original research...
(1957), ISBN 0-8398-2593-5 fictionalization of Wyoming's Johnson County WarJohnson County WarThe Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River, was a range war which took place in April 1892 in Johnson County, Natrona County and Converse County in the U.S. state of Wyoming... - Conquering HorseConquering HorseFrederick Manfred's Conquering Horse is the first novel in a five-volume series he called "The Buckskin Man Tales." It tells a mythic story about Indian life on the Great Plains before the arrival of white people to the region.-References:...
(1959), ISBN 0-8398-2590-0 - Scarlet PlumeScarlet PlumeScarlet Plume is a novel by Frederick Manfred, the fourth in The Buckskin Man Tales. The Dakota War of 1862 is shown from the point of view of a woman captured by the Sioux at the beginning of the war...
(1964), ISBN 0-8398-2594-3 - King of Spades (1965), ISBN 0-8398-2592-7
- The Man Who Looked Like the Prince of Wales (1965)
- Eden Prairie (1968)
- The Manly Hearted Woman (1972)
- Milk of Wolves (1976)
- Green Earth (1977)
- Sons of Adam (1980)
- Flowers of Desire (1989)
- No Fun On Sunday (1990)
- Of Lizards and Angels (1992)
Note: There are also a handful of non-fiction titles, notably The Wind Blows Free, a memoir of the Dust Bowl, Conversations with Frederick Manfred, and Prime Fathers and Duke's Mixture, anthologies of FM's essays.