Frank Merriwell's Champions (Illustrated)

Frank Merriwell's Champions is the 19th of the first 143 titles of the Merriwell series -- stories of Frank and Dick Merriwell. In this volume, the story of our brave hero, Frank Merriwell, continues. The story develops in Lake Lily Athletic Club. Club members have practiced archery in the mountains to ready themselves for the big competition. But it is not that simple. Frank and his boys have to overcome unforgettable obstacles and find highly-risky adventures. Another heart-stopping story.

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.

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