Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 19 -- The Stratemeyer Boys Club Serials
The book's credited to both Edward Stratemeyer and Oliver Optic, an admiral pseudonym of
William Adams, a non-syndicate writer. What's surer than the work's bibliographic roots is the
fact that, once again, there's an underground river.
And we've just skimmed the Stratemeyer surface. Holding strictly to like-titled series, there are
also the
The Radio Boys by Allen Chapmen
The Motor Boys and the Racer Boys by Clarence Young
The Fairview Boys by Frederick Gordon
The Pioneer Boys by Harrison Adams
The White Ribbon Boys by Raymond Sperry, Jr.
The Rushton Boys by Spencer Davenport
The Y.M.C.A. Boys by Brooks Henderley
The X Bar X Boys by James Cody Ferris
The Air Service Boys by Charles Emory Beach
Were we to plough through the lot, we'd expect to find mostly the same underground rivers. A
stable of writers working under a catalog of pseudonyms produces a plethora of predictably
narrow escapes.
We'll see more of the Stratemeyer Syndicate in Chapter 23, Girls, Too!, but there we'll encounter
works less penetrated by underground rivers because girls tend to be more intelligent about
exploring such waterways.
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