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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham

Steve Kemper

4.19/5 (210 ratings)

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Fred Burnham was fifteen months old in 1862 when his mother hid him in a cornfield, telling him not to move or make any sound. Then she fled a Sioux war party, returning a day later. The cabin was burned, but the boy was where she’d left him, unhurt.

So begins a life of adventure, exploration, and military daring seldom found outside the novels of H. Rider Haggard or accounts of the young Theodore Roosevelt—both of whom were Burnham’s friends. He could track any man or animal day or night and had no fear of scouting against the Apaches because he could outrun them. In South Africa, Burnham entered the camp of the Ndebele rebels at night to murder their high priest.

Burnham lived according to virtues and values that have almost nothing to do with today’s world; Steve Kemper does a magnificent job in bringing this life and all its nuances to the page.

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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham

Steve Kemper

4.19/5 (210 ratings)

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Fred Burnham was fifteen months old in 1862 when his mother hid him in a cornfield, telling him not to move or make any sound. Then she fled a Sioux war party, returning a day later. The cabin was burned, but the boy was where she’d left him, unhurt.

So begins a life of adventure, exploration, and military daring seldom found outside the novels of H. Rider Haggard or accounts of the young Theodore Roosevelt—both of whom were Burnham’s friends. He could track any man or animal day or night and had no fear of scouting against the Apaches because he could outrun them. In South Africa, Burnham entered the camp of the Ndebele rebels at night to murder their high priest.

Burnham lived according to virtues and values that have almost nothing to do with today’s world; Steve Kemper does a magnificent job in bringing this life and all its nuances to the page.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Reprint

Language:

ISBN10:: 0393353907

ISBN13:: 9780393353907

kindle Asin:: B00YYT9ATU

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