Wyatt Burp
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I just finished the excellent 2017 book "Splendid Savage" by Steve Kemper about Frederick Russell Burnham. I wrote Kemper with some questions about Burnhams famous guns like his 1875 Remington and early Winchester '73 carbine. I said I read that gun writer Jack Lott inherited Burnham's Remington and Lee-Metford. Kemper said he mentioned Lott in his footnotes and after Lott committed suicide the Burnham family lost track of those guns.
Anyone here know what became of Burnham's weapons previously owned by Lott? This book is extraordinary, almost as much as Burnham's life itself. Aspects of it that I can't mention here precludes a movie ever being made about Burnham, unfortunately. Here's the book and my copy of "Scouting On Two Continents" with Burnham's inscription. Book inscribed to a "Florener Hornecker", who I can't find anywhere on line.
Anyone here know what became of Burnham's weapons previously owned by Lott? This book is extraordinary, almost as much as Burnham's life itself. Aspects of it that I can't mention here precludes a movie ever being made about Burnham, unfortunately. Here's the book and my copy of "Scouting On Two Continents" with Burnham's inscription. Book inscribed to a "Florener Hornecker", who I can't find anywhere on line.
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