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Frederick Russell Burnham's amazing history resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. Mostly of the people who could change his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world famous as "the American scout". His competence in woodcraft, discovered from frontiersmen and Indians, helped encourage another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Youngster Scouts. His activities encompassed Apache wars and range feuds, booms and busts in mining camps around the world, explorations in remote regions of Africa, and death-defying armed forces feats that brought him renown and high honors. His skills resulted in his unusual appointment, as an American, to be chief of scouts for the English through the Boer Warfare, where his daring exploits attained him the Distinguished Service Order from Ruler Edward VII. After a lifetime pursuing golden potential clients from the deserts of Mexico and Africa to the tundra of the Klondike, Burnham found riches, in his 60s, near his years as a child home in Southern California. Other men of his age acquired a few such activities, but Burnham acquired them all. His friend H. Rider Haggard, author of many best-selling amazing tales, remarked, "In true to life he is more interesting than some of my heroes of relationship." Among other well-known people who amount in Burnham's history are Cecil Rhodes and William Howard Taft as well as a few of the wealthiest men of the day, including John Hays Hammond, E. H. Harriman, Harry Payne Whitney, and the Guggenheim brothers. Failing and tragedy streaked his life as well, but Burnham was endlessly inclined to create off in to the unknown, where in fact the future felt up for grabs and values well worth dying for were at stake. Steve Kemper brings a quintessential American history to vibrant life in this gripping biography.
