A splendid savage
Subtitle: the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
By: Steve Kemper
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780393239270
Subjects: Scouts (Reconnaissance); History; Boy Scouts of America; Biography; Adventure and adventurers
Description: Burnham's life story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. 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. 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. Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this gripping biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: Child of the frontier; title: A Pueblo and some Puritans; title: Wanderings and apprenticeships; title: The Tonto Basin feud; title: Tombstone; title: The Tigers of the human species; title: Hunting tigers with tigers; title: A mine, a wedding, a change of plans; title: To Africa; title: To the frontier; title: War in Matabeleland; title: The King's spoor; title: The Shangani patrol; title: Spears into pegs; title: Cashing in; title: War again; title: The mouthpiece of God; title: The Klondike; title: Chief of Scouts; title: Behind enemy lines; title: Celebrity and hinterlands; title: British East Africa; title: Prospects and losses; title: A president saved, another fortune postponed; title: Hippos and spies; title: Scouting for mines and for Roosevelt; title: Closing the circle; title: After the bonanza.