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A Splendid Savage - The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham (Hardcover)
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A Splendid Savage - The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham (Hardcover)
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Frederick Russell Burnham's (1861-1947) amazing story resembles a
newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few
people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into
a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as "the American scout."
His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians,
helped inspire another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the
Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and range feuds,
booms and busts in mining camps around the globe, explorations in
remote regions of Africa, and death-defying military feats that
brought him renown and high honors. His skills led to his unusual
appointment, as an American, to be Chief of Scouts for the British
during the Boer War, where his daring exploits earned him the
Distinguished Service Order from King Edward VII. After a lifetime
pursuing golden prospects from the deserts of Mexico and Africa to
the tundra of the Klondike, Burnham found wealth, in his sixties,
near his childhood home in southern California. Other men of his
era had a few such adventures, but Burnham had them all. His friend
H. Rider Haggard, author of many best-selling exotic tales,
remarked, "In real life he is more interesting than any of my
heroes of romance." Among other well-known individuals who figure
in Burnham's story are Cecil Rhodes and William Howard Taft, as
well as some of the wealthiest men of the day, including John Hays
Hammond, E. H. Harriman, Henry Payne Whitney, and the Guggenheim
brothers. Failure and tragedy streaked his life as well, but he was
endlessly willing to set off into the unknown, where the future
felt up for grabs and values worth dying for were at stake. Steve
Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this
gripping biography.
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