The Frederick Manfred Home Page

Frederick Manfred June 24, 1973;
Blue Mound--Luverne, Minnesota
(photo by Professor Thomas Gasque)

Remembering Frederick Manfred

Tricia Currans-Sheehan and Jeanne Emmons, editors of The Briar Cliff Review, have graciously given the USD English Dept. permission to reprint the Spring 1995 Briar Cliff Review articles on Frederick Manfred:

"Note from the Editor" by Tricia Currans-Sheehan.
"A Day at Roundwind: Memorializing Frederick Manfred" by Joseph Lawrence Basile.

A relative of Fred's, Denise Karachuk Feikema, talks about meeting Fred and how he inspired her as a writer:

"Frederick Feikema Manfred: Tribute to a Giant" by Denise Karachuk Feikema.

An elegaic poem in memory of Frederick Manfred by Mick McAllister, a scholar and writer who knew Fred well:

"Cottonwood" (http://www.dancingbadger.com/cottonwood.html)

Related Sites

Within Blue Mounds State Park (http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/parks_and_recreation/state_parks/blue_mounds/) lies the Interpretative Center, once the home of Frederick Manfred.

The Center for Great Plains Studies in Nebraska (http://www.unl.edu/plains) featured a mini-biography of Frederick Manfred (http://www.unl.edu/plains/events/resource/manfredbio.html), as well as a list of his published works and a nicely annotated bibliography.

The Center for International Studies (CIE) at http://www.thecie.org/ features a video about Frederick Manfred (American Grizzley: Frederick Manfred). Contact information: The Center for International Education / 255 Kellogg Boulevard E., Suite 503 / Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101-1435 / USA. Email: Mike Hazard, mediamic@bitstream.net . Phone: 651-227-2240.

Center for Western Studies at http://inst.augie.edu/CWS/. The Center, located at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, has published works about Frederick Manfred, as well as a work by Manfred: The Wind Blows Free, 1979.

John R. Milton Memorial Writers Conference at http://www.usd.edu/engl/conference.html. The Milton 2000 Conference celebrated the life and works of Frederick Manfred. The conference continues to focus on authors, works of literature, and ideas that lean west.

South Dakota Literary Map at http://www.dwu.edu/sdlitmap/index.html. This site, with a focus on younger readers, offers information about South Dakota authors, including Frederick Manfred.

Online bookstores that sell books by or about Frederick Manfred (you'll need to do a search):

Powell's City of Books at http://www.powells.com/
Tattered Cover Internet Store at http://www.tatteredcover.com/tc.
Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com.

The University of South Dakota Library (http://www.usd.edu/library/idweeks.html) has available most of the works listed below in the bibliography. (Click on the PALS Library Catalog.)

Western Literature Association at http://www.usu.edu/westlit/. This site focuses primarily on works and authors "located" west of the Mississippi. Frederick Manfred was a member of this organization for many years. It mentions the award named after him, "The Frederick Manfred Creative Writing Award ," which, in its first year (2001) was awarded to USD professor and poet Lee Ann Roripaugh.

Bibliography

Publications by Frederick (Feikema) Manfred (oldest to newest)

The Golden Bowl: A Novel.

Boy Almighty: A Novel. St. Paul, MN: Itasca Press (Webb Publishing Co.), 1945. Originally published under name Feike Feikema.

This is the Year. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947. (Reissue edition--Boston: Gregg P, 1979.) (Frisian edition--Dit is it Jier. Drachten, Drukkerij en Utjowerij Laverman N. V., 1967). Originally published under name Feike Feikema.

The Chokecherry Tree. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1949 (c1948). (Reissue edition--A. Swallow, 1961.) Originally published under name Feike Feikema.

The Primitive. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949. First book in "World's Wanderer" trilogy. Originally published under name Feike Feikema.

The Brother. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. Second book in "World's Wanderer" trilogy. Originally published under name Feike Feikema.

The Giant. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951. Third book in "World's Wanderer" trilogy. Originally published under name Feike Feikema.

Lord Grizzly. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954. (Reissue edition--New York: New American Library, 1964.) (Reissue edition--Signet, 1994.)

Sinclair Lewis: A Portrait. 1954.

Morning Red: A Romance. Denver: A. Swallow, 1956.

Riders of Judgment. New York: Random House, 1957 (Reissue edition--New York: New American Library, 1973.) (Reissue edition--Boston: Gregg P, 1980.)

Conquering Horse. New York: McDowell, 1959 (Reissue edition--Boston: Gregg P, 1980.) (Reissue edition--Signet, 1994.)

Arrow of Love. Denver: A. Swallow, 1961.

Wanderlust, a Trilogy: The Primitive. The Brother. The Giant. Denver: A. Swallow, 1962.

Scarlet Plume. New York: Trident, 1964 (Reissue edition--Boston: Gregg P, 1980) (Reissue edition--Signet Book 1995).

The Man Who Looked Like the Prince of Wales. New York: Trident, 1965.

The Secret Place. New York: Pocket Books, 1966 (c1965).

King of Spades. New York: Trident, 1966 (Reissue edition--Boston: Gregg P, 1980). (Reissue edition--Signet, 1995.)

Winter Count; Poems, 1934-1965. Minneapolis: J. D. Thueson, 1966.

King of Spades. New York: Trident, 1966.

Apples of Paradise, and Other Stories. New York: Trident, 1968.

Eden Prairie. New York, Trident, 1968.

Plainsong: Conversations with Frederick Manfred. Vermillion, SD: University of South Dakota, 1972 (c1971).

Lord Grizzly: The Legend of Hugh Glass. (Screenplay.) Vermillion, SD: University of South Dakota Libraries, 1972.

Conversations with Frederick Manfred. Moderated by John R. Milton. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1974.

Writing in the West. (Sound recording.) Deland, FL: Everett/Edwards, 1974.

The Manly-Hearted Woman. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975.

Milk of Wolves. Boston: Avenue Victor Hugo, 1976.

Green Earth. New York: Crown Publishing, 1977.

The Wind Blows Free: A Reminiscence. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 1979.

Sons of Adam. New York: Crown, 1980.

Buckskin Man Tales (including Lord Grizzly, Conquering Horse, Scarlet Plume, Riders of Judgment, and King of Spades), five volumes, Gregg, 1980.

Narrator in The Movie at the End of the World: a Portrait of the Poet Tom McGrath. (Videorecording.) St. Paul: University Community Video and the CIE, 1981.

Dinkytown. Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore, 1984.

Winter Count II: Poems. Minneapolis: James D. Thueson, 1987.

Prime Fathers. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1988.

The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred, 1932-1954. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1988.

Flowers of Desire: A Novel. Salt Lake City: Dancing Badger P, 1989.

No Fun on Sunday: A Novel. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1990.

Of Lizards and Angels: A Saga of Siouxland. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1992.

Duke's Mixture (The Prairie Plains Series). Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, 1994.

The Frederick Manfred Reader. Ed. John Calvin Rezmerski. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

Secondary Sources (alphabetically arranged by last name)

Books at Iowa

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/andrews.htm

Austin, James C. "Legend, Myth and Symbol in Frederick Manfred's Lord Grizzly." Critique 6 (Winter 1963-1964): 122-30.

Bebeau, Donald. "A Search for Voice, a Sense of Place in The Golden Bowl." South Dakota Review 7 (Winter 1969-70): 79-87.

Boeveld, Bernice. "A Study of the Depression Years Through the Fiction of Frederick F. Manfred." Thesis (M.A), University of Wyoming, 1971.

Daley, Dave. "Truth, Not Facts, Is `Historical' Novelist's Goal." Minneapolis Star. 4 September 1975. 2C.

DeBoer, Peter Pousma. Frederick Manfred: the Developing Art of the Novelist. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Iowa, 1961 (Rev. 1988).

Bunge, Nancy L. Finding the Words: Conversations with Writers Who Teach. (Conversation w/Frederick Manfred, pages 68-82.) Athens, OH: Swallow P (Ohio UP), 1985.

Dornberger-Jackson, Carol. A Comparative Study of Frederick Manfred's Lord Grizzly and A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Big Sky. Thesis (M.A.)--English Dept., South Dakota State U, 1984.

Flora, Joseph M. Frederick Manfred. Boise, ID: Boise State U, 1974. (Western Writers Series, No. 13.)

- - -. The Works of Frederick Manfred. Sound Recording. (Lecturer: Joseph Flora.) Deland, FL: Everett/Edwards, 1976.

Harrison, Dick. "Frederick Manfred." In Fifty Western Writers, eds. Fred Erisman and Richard W. Etulain. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Hazard, Mike and Jim Mulligan. American Grizzly: Frederick Manfred. (Videorecording.) St. Paul: The Center for International Studies (The CIE), 1983. Frederick Manfred discusses his life and his writing and reads excerpts from his novels.

Hilmoe, Joan. Themes of Isolation and Relationship in Selected Novels of Frederick Manfred. Thesis (M.A.)--English Dept., South Dakota State U, 1969.

Huseboe, Arthur R. "Frederick Manfred (1912-1994)." In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 212, Twentieth-Century American Writers, Second Series, edited by Richard H. Cracroft. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999. 185-97.

- - -. "From Feikema to Manfred, From the Big Sioux Basin to the Northern Plains." Great Plains Quarterly. 21:4 (Fall 2001). 309-319.

Kellogg, George Alexis. Frederick Manfred: a Bibliography. Denver: Swallow P, 1965.

Manfred, Freya. Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers (Midwest Reflections). Minnesota Historical Society, 1999.

McAllister, Mick. A series of unpublished articles on some of Manfred's works. McAllister's main page for "At Wanderer's Well: Literary Essays" is located at http://www.dancingbadger.com/toplit.htm .

http://www.dancingbadger.com/katherinef.htm

"The Sundered Egg: The Sexual Issue in Frederick Manfred's The Manly-Hearted Woman. Presented at the 1980 annual meeting of the Western Literature Association. http://www.dancingbadger.com/sunderf.htm .

"We Sons of Jacob: The Procession to Apocalypse in The Buckskin Man Tales." Presented at the 1979 [?] annual meeting of the Western Literature Association. http://www.dancingbadger.com/sonjacobf.htm .

Michael, Larry Arnold. Literary Allusions in the Fiction of Frederick Manfred. Thesis (M.A., English). Vermillion, SD: University of South Dakota, 1965.

Milton, John R. "Voice from Siouxland: Frederick Feikema Manfred." College English 19 (December 1957). 104-11.

- - - . "Frederick Feikema Manfred." Western Review 22 (Spring 1958). 181-99.

- - - . "Lord Grizzly: Rhythm, Form and Meaning in the Western Novel." Western American Literature 1 (Spring 1966): 6-14.

- - - . "Interview with Frederick Manfred." South Dakota Review 7 (Winter 1969-1970): 110-131.

- - - .The Novel of the American West. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1980. Discusses several Western writers, including Frederick Manfred.

- - -. Papers, 1955-1986. Collection includes Milton's transcripts of interviews with Frederick Manfred. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies--Augustana College.

Mulder, Rodney. Frederick Manfred: a Bibliography and Publishing History. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies--Augustana College, 1981.

Nelson, Nancy Owen. "Frederick Manfred: Bard of Siouxland." In Prairie Frontier, eds. Sandra Looney, Arthur R. Huseboe, and Geoffrey Hunt. Sioux Falls: S.D.: The Nordland Heritage Foundation, 1984. 53-75.

- - - . "Frederick Manfred." In Updating the Literary West, ed. Thomas J. Lyon. Western Literary Association. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1997. 693-700.

- - - . The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies--Augustana College, 1998.

O'Brien, Richard P. "Naturalism and the Tragic View in the Writing of Frederick Manfred." Thesis (M.A.), Mankato State University, 1967.

Pruett, Jacque Suzanne Funderburk. "A Critical Analysis of Lord Grizzly." Thesis (M.A). Colorado State University, 1968.

Quantic, Diane Dufva. The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1997 (paperback). Discusses Fred Manfred, along with other Great Plains writers.

Roth, Russell. "The Inception of a Saga: Frederick Manfred's Buckskin Man." South Dakota Review 7 (Winter 1969-70): 87-100.

- - - . "Is Manfred the Midwest's Faulkner?" Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. 1 August 1954. 1-6.

South Dakota Review. SDR (38.3, Fall 2000) features a special issue devoted to Frederick Manfred. Contact bbedard@usd.edu for more information or visit the SDR website at http://www.usd.edu/engl/SDR.

Swallow, Alan. "The Mavericks." Critique 2 (Winter 1959): 88-92.

Thompson, Harry F. "History, Historicity, and the Western American Novel: Frederick Manfred's Scarlet Plume and the Dakota War of 1862." Western American Literature 37 (2002): 50-82.

Vinz, Mark. "Milton, Manfred, and McGrath: A Conversation on Literature and Place." Dacotah Territory 8/9 (Fall-Winter 1974-75): 19-26.

Waters, Frank. "West of the Mississippi: An Interview with Frederick Manfred." Critique 2 (Winter 1959): 35-36.

Wright, Richard C. Frederick Manfred. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979.

Wright, Robert C. "Frederick Manfred." In A Literary History of the American West, edited by Thomas J. Lyon. Western Literary Association. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1987. http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0792.html

Wylder, Delbert E. "Manfred's Indian Novel." South Dakota Review 7 (Winter 1969? 70): 100-110.

- - - . "Frederick Manfred: The Quest of the Independent Writer." Books at Iowa 31. Iowa City: University of Iowa, November 1979.

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