Frank in the Mountains (Illustrated)

Frank in the Mountains is the third book in the "Rocky Mountain Series." After they left Don Carlos' Frank Nelson and his buddy, Archie Winters, settled with an expeditionary force in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Frank gets captured by Indians, who want to force him to become one of the tribe, and the boys encounter the notorious outlaw, Black Bill; a meeting that produces a very surprising outcome. Frank meets an Indian medicine-man, or does he? And Frank faces a grizzly bear and an Indian at the same time; and both of them want to kill him!

Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of stories and novels intended mainly for young adults. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for young adults in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of young adult literature.

Fosdick once remarked that: "Young men don't like fine literature. What they want is adventure, and the more of it you can get in two-hundred-fifty pages of manuscript, the better fellow you are." Fosdick served up a lot of adventure in such popular book series as the Gunboat Series, the Rocky Mountain Series, the Roughing It Series, the Sportsman's Club Series, and The Steel Horse, or the Rambles of a Bicycle.

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