Major Frederick R. Burnham signed book

[Wyatt Burp]

At a flea market about twenty years ago I bought this 1926 copy of "Scouting On Two continents" by scout, hunter, gunfighter, and soldier Major Frederick R. Burnham. This copy has "1934" in it so it's probably a 2nd edition. He went from being a gunman in the Pleasant Valley War in AZ. to a scout in Africa. He was 79 when he signed this book. His hand that was so steady grasping his 1875 Remington in violent encounters is shaky here, but very articulate. Also pictured is his signature a year later in a book owned by the Canadian Anglo-Boer Museum. If I haden't read a Jack Lott article on Burnham years before in my dad's Guns & Ammo Annual I'd have walked right past it.

 

[Kurusu]

At a flea market about twenty years ago I bought this 1926 copy of "Scouting On Two continents" by scout, hunter, gunfighter, and soldier Major Frederick R. Burnham. He went from being a gunman in the Pleasant Valley War in AZ. to a scout in Africa. He was 79 when he signed this book. His hand that was so steady grasping his 1875 Remington in violent encounters is shaky here, but very articulate. Also pictured is his signature a year later in a book owned by the Canadian Anglo-Boer Museum. If I haden't read a Jack Lott article on Burnham years before in my dad's Guns & Ammo Annual I'd have walked right past it.

Read that article too. In fact I still have that issue of Guns & Ammo (along with all the other ones I ever bought).

 

[shell627]

Great book and a fascinating man.If I could I would give you a double like.

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

me too....great find!

 

[Texas Star]

For those who don't recognize the letters after his name, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, just one step beneath the Victoria Cross.

His scouting for the British during the Boer War of 1899-1902 was probably the foundation for Lord Baden-Powell founding the Boy Scouts.