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All England cheered this modest American.
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 M’Limo, 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.
“In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance”—SIR RIDER HAGGARD
“I have seldom been as much taken with a narrative”—REAR ADMIRAL WM. S. SIMS, U.S.N.
“I have read it all with enthralled interest”—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“England was never made by her statesmen; England was made by her adventurers.”—GENERAL GORDON.
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 M’Limo, 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.
“In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance”—SIR RIDER HAGGARD
“I have seldom been as much taken with a narrative”—REAR ADMIRAL WM. S. SIMS, U.S.N.
“I have read it all with enthralled interest”—THEODORE ROOSEVELT
“England was never made by her statesmen; England was made by her adventurers.”—GENERAL GORDON.
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Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (1861-1947) 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. He helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
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