Steve Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this gripping biography.

A world-traveled writer recounts the amazing adventures of an American who mentored Robert Baden-Powell and inspired the Boy Scouts. Burnham is bigger than the Chief Scout.

Frederick Russell Burnham - The King of Scouts is the biography of Frederick Russell Burnham, an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert ...

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.

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If you like Scouting on Two Continents, you'll love Burnham's second Autobiography, Taking Chances, also brought back into print by The Kangaroo Feather Publishing Co. Frederick Russell Burnham was an American frontier scout and world ...

" Rider Haggard"Burnham is a most delightful companion ... amusing, interesting, and most instructive. Having seen service against the Red Indians he brings quite a new experience to bear on the Scouting work here.

In a collection of letters edited by historians Mary E. and Richard H. Bradford, the Burnham's life in Africa comes alive, revealing a seldom-seen portrait of turn-of-the-century South Africa through the eyes of an American family that ...