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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham

by Steve Kemper

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.” His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped inspire another friend

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

Feb 21, 2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

464

ISBN

9780393353907