A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham

by Steve Kemper

Book Overview

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, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393353907
• ISBN13: 9780393353907
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"