Scouting on Two Continents F R Burnham

 Scouting on Two Continents 

Author: F R Burnham 

Publisher: Books of Rhodesia

Edition: Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series - Volume 4 1975

ISBN: 0 86920 126 3 

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Some rubbing to dustcover. Previous owners name.   

Binding: Hardcover       

Pages: 370. Print with images & maps  

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He acquired his scouting lore warring against Apaches in Arizona. After hunting gold in the Northwest and the Klondike he rode deep into the savage territory of Africa to slay the MLimo, treacherous Matabele high priest. During the Boer War he performed many thrilling exploits as chief of Scouts. He was honored in the friendship of Lord Roberts, Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes, and Dr. Jameson and received the highest honors of the British Empire. In this book he tells in full detail the fascinating story of his thrilling and varied career.

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.

Indeed his influence would lead his friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to begin the international Scouting Movement.

In Scouting on Two Continents Burnham records the details of his brilliant life in fascinating detail and provides insight into the life of an unique adventurer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He fought in the Pleasant Valley War, Apache Wars, the First and Second Matabele Wars as well as the Second Boer War. His book Scouting on Two Continents was first published in 1926. He passed away in 1947.

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