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Burnham
A world-traveled writer recounts the amazing adventures of an American who mentored Robert Baden-Powell and inspired the Boy Scouts. Burnham is bigger than the Chief Scout.
A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham
"Rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page." —Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal 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 de...
Scouting on Two Continents
Frederick Russell Burnham (1861 – 1947) was an American scout and adventurer who serve with the British in southern colonial Africa. This classic includes the following chapters: I. The Making of a Scout II. First Lessons in Scouting III. The Tonto Basin Feud IV. My Smuggler Friend V. Ups and Downs in Globe VI. The Necktie Party VII. Gold Mining VIII. The Call to Africa IX. The Long Trail X. The Trek North XI. The War Cloud XII. Mashonaland XIII. The First Matabele War XIV. When the Compass Failed XV. Carrying Dispatches XVI. The Dash to Capture the King XVII. Wilson’s Last Stand XVIII. Forbes’s Retreat XIX. After the War XX. The Jameson Raid XXI. The Second Matabele War XXII. Rhodesia’s Darkest Hour XXIII. The M’limo XXIV. Klondike XXV. An Opinion of the Boers XXVI. Paardeberg and Modder River XXVII. The Pietersburg Failure XXVIII. Cattle Lifting Near Brakpan XXIX. Taken Prisoner at Sanna’s Post XXX. Escape From the Boers XXXI. Cutting the Railroad XXXII. Wounded XXXIII. Rewards XXXIV. The Great War and the Prospector
Scouting on Two Continents
Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement.Burnham had only a little formal education, attending high school but never graduating. He began his career at 14 in the American Southwest as a scout and tracker for the U.S. Army in the Apache Wars and Cheyenne Wars. Sensing the Old West was getting too tame Burnham traveled to Africa in 1893 where his background proved useful.Burnham distinguished himself in several battles in Rhodesia and South Africa and be...
Scouting on Two Continents
If you like Scouting on Two Continents, you'll love Burnham's second Autobiography, Taking Chances, also brought back into print by The Kangaroo Feather Publishing Co. Frederick Russell Burnham was an American frontier scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement. Burnham had only a little formal education, attending high school but never graduating. He began his career at 14 in the American Southwest as a scout and tracker for the U.S. Army in the Apache Wars and Cheyenne Wars. Sensing the Old We...
Scouting on Two Continents
Frederick Russell Burnham: Explorer, discoverer, cowboy, and Scout.Native American, he served as chief of scouts in the Boer War, an intimate friend of Lord Baden-Powell. As an honorary Scout of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), he has served as an inspiration to the youth of the Nation and is the embodiment of the qualities of the ideal Scout.The BSA made Burnham an Honorary Scout in 1927, and for his noteworthy and extraordinary service to the Scouting movement, Burnham was bestowed the highest commendation given by the BSA, the Silver Buffalo Award, in 1936. Throughout his life he remained active in Scouting at both the regional and the national level in the United States and he corresponded regularly with Baden-Powell on Scouting topics.
Scouting on Two Continents (Illustrated)
Frederick Burnham Russell was one of the greatest military scouts to have ever lived. Born on a Dakota Sioux reservation he was taught the ways of the Native Americans from as soon as he could walk.At the tender age of fourteen, having had little formal education, he was supporting himself and learning from some of the last cowboys and frontiersmen of the Old West.These lessons would pay dividend in his later life, first as a tracker for the United States Army in the Apache Wars and later as a scout for the British Army in the Matebele Wars in Southern Africa.Frederick Burnham Russell was a remarkable figure who revolutionized the art of scouting in both the British and United States armies....
Frontiers in the Gilded Age
The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how these frontier spaces could glitter with grandiose visions, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that indigenous people summoned when threatened. Linking together a series of stories about Boer exiles who settled in Mexico, a global network of protestant missionaries, and adventurers involved in the parallel displacements of indigenous peoples in Rhodesia and the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, Offenburger situates the borderlands of the Mexican North and the American Southwest within a global system, bound by common actors who interpreted their lives through a shared frontier ideology.
Taking Chances
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