Standish was an American author of kopeck novels, adventure stories and abstinence novels. He wrote about 60 titles in the Fred Fearnot series, many of which were published in Work and Win and Pluck and Luck. Fred Fearnot’s New Ranch is a novel for young teens that teaches self-control, rewards for honesty, hard work and friendship. The novel not only teens can teach something, but adults as well.-
Fred usually travels. Returning from the West, where Fred Firno rescued Terry Olcott from a group of pastoralists who were going to lynch him by mistake, he found letters from the manager of his small investments in Dedham Lake that gave him a bit of anxiety. The reader undoubtedly remembers that during a visit to the upper part of the state he discovered a beautiful lake, covering about three hundred acres.