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What is important about L. Frank Baum's South Dakota years?
L. Frank Baum's description of Kansas in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is based on his experiences in drought-ridden South Dakota
Who were L. Frank Baum's parents?
L. Frank Baum was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum.
Did L. Frank Baum have siblings?
L. Frank Baum was the seventh of nine children.
Where did L. Frank Baum go to school?
L. Frank Baum was tutored at home with his siblings. From the age of 12, he spent two miserable years at Peekskill Military Academy.
where did L. Frank Baum go after that Peekskill Military Academy?
After being severely disciplined for daydreaming, L. Frank Baum had a possibly psychogenic heart attack and was allowed to return home.
What else did L. Frank Baum do during his early life besides his heart attack?
L. Frank Baum printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory
What did L. Frank Baum write during this early life?
In March 1880, L. Frank Baum established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record.
What else did L. Frank Baum do during his early life besides having his heart attack, pamphlet, and trade journal?
At 20, L. Frank Baum took on the national craze of breeding fancy poultry.
What did L. Frank Baum work on after breeding fancy poultry?
L Frank Baum embarked on his lifetime infatuation—and wavering financial success—with the theater.
Any other works of L. Frank Baum during the 1880 besides his financial success with theater ?
In 1880 L. Frank Baum set about writing plays. The Maid of Arran proved a modest success, a melodrama with songs based on William Black's novel A Princess of Thule.

Question: Was it well received?
Self-contained rewrite: Was L. Frank Baum's The Maid of Arran well received?