Frederick Russell Burnham
Father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil man; writer; rancher (1861–1947)
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Frederick Russell Burnham was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
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