Frank A Munsey was born in the year 1854 on a farm near Augusta, Maine. A typical farmer boy, he grew up to be a tall, gawky young man with sandy hair and icy blue eyes. His father never thought that Frank would amount to much and it began to look as though he were right - especially when Frank gave up a good job in Augusta, and headed to New York City with only a few dollars in an alligator skin satchel, containing a bundle of manuscripts...