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Major Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia.
Feb 3, 2016 · Frederick Russell Burnham’s life reads like something out of a Jack London novel. Army scout, prospector and decorated war hero, Burnham travelled the world in search of adventure in the late 19th Century.
Mar 20, 2016 · For a biographer, Frederick Russell Burnham is a gift with some sharp edges. His life (1861-1947) was overstuffed with thrilling incidents. He was friends with people who shaped history,...
May 23, 2016 · He’s a fictional character but here’s the thing, there was a guy in the 19th Century that would put the most interesting man in the world to shame. His name is Frederick Russell Burnham. He was a world’s famous scout that did time with TR and the great mountain men of the American West.
Jul 21, 2016 · In the Arizona wilderness of 1881, 20-year-old courier Frederick Russell Burnham knew that the assignment from Neil McLeod, one of Tombstone’s many larger-than-life personalities, was fraught with danger.
Fredrick Russell Burnham, along with a couple of unlikely allies, ran a campaign to popularize hippos into the American diet and begin farming hippos on...
Jan 27, 2016 · Frederick Russell Burnham Is the Most Interesting Man in the World A rollicking new book examines the extraordinary, nearly forgotten life of the american scout and adventurer (Photo: Library...
Feb 27, 2018 · 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. It was on some of his exploits demanding great courage, alertness, skill in surmounting the perils of the out-of-doors, that the founder of Scouting based some of the ...
Feb 21, 2017 · 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.”
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Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout. He travelled the world and had many adventures. He served to the British Army in colonial Africa and for taught scouting to Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the boy scouts.
